Part 1 - Explaining Correlation:

Please write out how you would explain correlation to an interested friend. What information do we need to tell people if they are going to understand what correlation is, what it can tell us, how it achieves this and what we need to watch out for?

Part 2 - Nonsense Correlations and Misuses of Correlation:

• Please look at a few examples of spurious correlations on this websiteSpurious Correlations.https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
• Explain what this tells you about correlation that you didn't already know.
• Next, please explain a time in your life where you mistakenly attributed cause and later found out that something else was the true cause of that event. What led you to mistakenly attribute cause?
• What is an example of a correlation that you KNOW is just a correlation and not a cause, but in spite of that, you always worry that there is causality there?