00:01
About misleading correlations so misleading correlations uh basically the easiest way to explain this in the shortest amount of words is correlation doesn't equal causation right that's something that people say a lot doesn't equal causation and what that means is just because a correlation exists or just because a correlation exists does not mean that does that mean that there is a relationship between the two variables.
01:01
And i'll give an example in a second, but this basically happens when other factors are not considered or missed, this can happen, right? so a common one would be an increase in ice cream consumption.
01:38
An increase in ice cream consumption in area leads to shark attacks.
01:53
So no, there is a third variable here.
02:04
People eat ice cream, ice cream more in summer and also people go to the beach more in summer and this is where there could be a shark attack so it doesn't really have to do with eating ice cream right shark attacks would increase if there's more people that can be attacked right if no one's going in the water you're not going to get shark attacks it doesn't matter on how much ice cream you're eating.
02:40
So it could also be, so let's see, reasons for misleading correlations.
02:54
I'm just going to list these and you could write it out in a sentence.
02:59
So there it was a third variable...