Despite the chant that correlation is not causation, some researchers believe the design of scatter plots nudges us to the wrong conclusions. Can a change in their design lessen that risk? Analyzing ...

Let’s look at what correlation means in terms of the relationship between variables. Although our focus will be on positive correlation, we will also describe negative correlation and what we mean ...

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