{"id":7687,"date":"2021-09-09T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2021-09-09T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:07:38","slug":"but-just-because-two-quantities-are-correlated-does-not-necessarily-mean-that-one-is-directly-causing-the-other-to-change-correlation-does-not-imply-causation-just-like-cloudy-weather-does-not-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/but-just-because-two-quantities-are-correlated-does-not-necessarily-mean-that-one-is-directly-causing-the-other-to-change-correlation-does-not-imply-causation-just-like-cloudy-weather-does-not-im\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/clearing-up-confusion-between-correlation-and-causation-30761#:~:text=But%20just%20because%20two%20quantities%20are%20correlated%20does%20not%20necessarily%20mean%20that%20one%20is%20directly%20causing%20the%20other%20to%20change.\"><font color=\"blue\">   But just because two quantities are correlated does not necessarily mean that one is directly causing the other to change. Correlation does not imply causation, just like cloudy weather does not imply rainfall, even though the reverse is true. <\/font><\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/clearing-up-confusion-between-correlation-and-causation-30761#:~:text=But%20just%20because%20two%20quantities%20are%20correlated%20does%20not%20necessarily%20mean%20that%20one%20is%20directly%20causing%20the%20other%20to%20change.\"> \n\nBut just because two quantities are correlated does not necessarily mean that one is directly causing the other to change. Correlation does not imply causation, just like cloudy weather does not imply rainfall, even though the reverse is true.\n\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/invbat.com\/ads1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Help2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Help2.png 885w, https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Help2-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Help2-768x265.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><p>advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But just because two quantities are correlated does not necessarily mean that one is directly causing the other to change. Correlation does not imply causation, just like cloudy weather does not imply rainfall, even though the reverse is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confusing-correlation-and-causation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invbat.com\/blog2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}