What’s Wrong? In Exercises 25–28, identify what is wrong. Motorcycles and Sour Cream In recent years, there has been a strong correlation between per capita consumption of sour cream and the numbers of motorcycle riders killed in noncollision accidents. Therefore, consumption of sour cream causes motorcycle fatalities.

Brylee Shepard

Brylee Shepard

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2022-08-13

What’s Wrong?
Motorcycles and Sour Cream In recent years, there has been a strong correlation between per capita consumption of sour cream and the numbers of motorcycle riders killed in noncollision accidents. Therefore, consumption of sour cream causes motorcycle fatalities.

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Malcolm Good

Malcolm Good

Beginner2022-08-14Added 14 answers

Given:
We have given one statement. That says a strong correlation between per capita consumption of sour cream and the numbers of motorcycle riders killed in non-collision accidents.
In second statement it says that, consumption of sour cream cause motorcycle fatalities.
First, we need to understand correlation and causation.
Correlation: Correlation is a term in statistics that refers to the degree of association between two random variables.
Causation: Causation is implying that A and B have a cause-and-effect relationship with one another.
In given example, there are strong correlation between per capita consumption of sour cream and the numbers of motorcycle riders killed in non-collision accidents.
Here, one thing is that correlation shows that there is a relationship between the variables but it does not show causation.
Which is wrong in given statement that correlation and causation said at one time. Hence, Correlation does not imply causation

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