➔ To reporter John Dorman & Business Insider editors; eating ice cream does not cause sunburn. Good journalists know that correlation is not causality. Merely saying, “As reported by The New York Times,” is not research. #Canada #USA #Housing #Immigration #FalseCausality

"Politics", as a whole, is one long conversation filled with bad arguments. I want everyone to know how to be a "critical thinker". This should be the standard, reinforced and taught every day. #redherring #adhominem #falsedichotomy #falsecausality etc

For anyone working with data for research ... visualcapitalist.com/here-are-15-co… PDF (geckoboard.com/uploads/data-f…) #data #dataresearch #dataanalytics #dataanalysis #datafallacies #falsecausality #causality #gerrymandering #bias #samplingbias #survivorshipbias #regression #hawthorneeffect

* maybe substitute "while" for "although" in that tweet. #FalseCausality See, I am TOO TIRED for anything more demanding than Twitter…

🤔 #FalseCausality a data fallacy? (Day 3) Conclusions on causal relationships are drawn based on statistical associations that happen by chance or caused by other factors. #DataScience #BestPractices

میری فلاں خاتون سے شادی ہوئی ، اسلیئے میں برطانیہ کا صدر بن گیا. میں نے صبح ہاف فرائیڈ انڈہ کھایا ، اسلیئے میری گاڑی کا ٹائر پنکچر ہوگیا. #FalseCausality

#FalseCausality nyti.ms/3tOu1ok

Nicki Minaj So the sun rose this morning and the rooster was crowing so now I gotta get up every damn morning pre-dawn and make sure the damn rooster crows so the sun will come up. #falsecausality

Ahem “Startup creation serves a leading indicator of economic value creation in a country”... Unicorns don’t indicate ‘economic value creation’ - VCs create unicorns through their valuation and everyone knows how grounded those are in true economic value terms. #FalseCausality

@GovSisolak Anderson Cooper With absolutely zero concrete plan to do so based on reliable data. How utterly worthless your ambiguous promises and timeline generalities are to Nevada! #OpenNevada #Covid19FundingScam #FalseCausality

Propaganda değilse #falsecausality

Gabbar Have you seen the weather forecast on his first day as PM... that blondie is definitely responsible for global warming too! #FalseCausality

We are oversensitive to patterns. Something probability can explain is just a harmful illusion. #FalseCausality #IllusionOfControl

The White House Trump took campaign money from Big Pharma. Also, how exactly is he responsible for generic drug approvals? Dozens of cities in the east and south set rainfall records in 2018... Thank you Trump for making so much rain! #facepalm #logicalphallacy #falsecausality

i.e. a better predictor of poverty is poverty. Not already being in poverty is a better prediction of being able to get a university education. It is also a better predictor of continuing to stay out of poverty. #theeconomist #badjournalism #twisting #correlative #falsecausality

TRUMP SAYS MARKET WILL CRASH IF HE'S IMPEACHED. MARKET'S ALREADY SUPPOSED TO CRASH ACCORDING TO THE YIELD CURVE. #FALSECAUSALITY Donald J. Trump