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Scatter Plots: Correlation vs. Causation

By Ben Ferrara
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Scatter plot of the number of times a person eats out each week and the number of hours of exercise in a week.

The results from a recent survey are graphed above. It can be seen that the more times a week a person goes out to eat, the less hours they exercise in a week. Is this a correlation or a causation?

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Type a concept, like “slope” or “photosynthesis”.

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