Discuss about correlation with causation

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Assignment:

Please watch videos and answer the following question about "Correlation with Causation."

Watch TEDxDelft's (2012) YouTube, "The Danger of Mixing Up Causality and Correlation."
Watch PsychU's (2015) YouTube, "Correlation vs. Causation - PSY 101."
Because PsychU momentarily confuses the term "hypothesis" with the term "theory," watch PBS's (2015) YouTube "Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law ... Explained!"
Watch AsapScience's (2017) YouTube, "This ≠ That."
Watch Khan Academy's (2011) YouTube, "Correlation and Causality."

Writing assignment

For At least 250 words in which you

List the six examples you jotted down from the videos for correlation not proving causation from the videos you watched.
Teach two separate people why they should not confuse correlation with causation and describe how you taught the two persons that correlation cannot be interpreted as causation. Ask each person to tell you another example (an example that you did not tell them) of correlation not proving causation.
Report the examples each person told you of correlations that should not be confused with causation and explain why these are good or bad examples of "correlation is not causation"

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