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Algebra 1 Data and statistics

Correlation vs causation

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Question 1
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Data shows a strong positive correlation between ice cream sales and the number of drowning incidents each month. A student concludes: ``Eating ice cream causes people to drown.''
Explain why this conclusion is incorrect and identify the likely confounding variable.
The conclusion is incorrect — hot weather is the confounding variable driving both variables

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