Stop falling for misleading headlines. Understand the difference between correlation and causation, and learn how researchers prove real scientific facts.

News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must ...

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With two different risky assets, an investor can minimize total portfolio volatility through the combination of investments with low to negative correlation. In a higher yield environment, 60/40 can ...

Public health is worsening, autism rates are rising — and so are incident conspiracy theories, including claims that the root of the autism evil is vaccines. As the CDC reopens the vaccine-link debate ...

The idea that correlation does not imply causation is a fundamental caveat in epidemiological research. A classic example involves a hypothetical link between ice cream sales and drownings – instead ...

A comment posted by a reader on a recent post reprimanded me for suggesting that marijuana caused relationships to go bad. In this instance the reader was mistaken, as I had specifically used the word ...

The rooster thinks he summons the sun because the sunrise always follows his crow. Correlation, at its worst, is a very confident rooster. For decades, our data economy has run on the same illusion: ...