A student sent me the following infographic which is an excellent illustration of our tendency to confuse correlation with causation:
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The image displays a meme that compares 5G coverage with the hot spots for COVID-19 implying that one caused the other. It then shows a variety of other maps with similar distributions. This illustrates how we often mistake correlation for causation. |
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