Here for spreading far and wide is (another) graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. On correlation, causation, and the “real” cause of autism Created by ...

One important question is whether the magnitude of PEH depends on the general BP status of the individual. Greater PEH in individuals with particularly high BP status would offer even more support for ...

There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

AI models often rely on “spurious correlations,” making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

Some experts believe that the tight correlation between stock prices and the Federal Reserve's growing balance sheet proves that the stock market is effectively being driven up by the Fed. In other ...

While thinking about what causes people to treat money differently, behavioural economist M. Keith Chen hit on a fascinating idea. “Why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and ...

Over the weekend, I came across an article via Facebook about the great “root canal cover-up.” The article charges that dentists have known for almost a century that root canals can unleash ...

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the alarming rate at which bees have been disappearing. Despite the fact that Einstein probably never actually said that if the bees go man ...