STATS 2 peers responses
Instructions for Replies
In your responses, pick one of the two arguments your classmate made in their initial post, and make a counterargument to it. Focus on new evidence and ideas that you bring into the mix, as opposed to using the ideas that your classmate already brought in with their other argument.
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Kevin Folsomtrexler
Jun 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
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According to the website there is a 94.71% correlation between the number of people who died by tangled in their bedsheets and per capita cheese consumption. There could be plausible links between these two due to the regions with higher cheese consumption might have specific dietary patterns or cultural practices that influence sleep quality. For instance, diets rich in cheese could lead to indigestion or sleep disturbances, potentially increasing the likelihood of accidents during sleep, such as entanglement in bedsheets. It could also be argued that the more cheese per capita could have higher economic status and their could have bigger beds and higher quality fabrics making it harder to get in and out of bed.
While this is a high correlation there is no probable cause for the correlation. Countries with higher cheese consumption have a higher population of elderly people with health issues. With higher elderly population they have more risks to get entangled in sheets.
Vigen, T. (n.d.). Spurious correlations. Spurious Correlations. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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Claudia Cardenas
Jun 21, 2023 at 3:31 PM
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Argue for why there could be a causative link between these two variables. Think of plausible ways they could be connected.
Because r is always a number between -1 and 1. r > 0 indicates a positive association. r < 0 indicates a negative association and, in this case, r=0.99789126, this indicates a strong, positive association between the two variables.
Argue for why there is only a correlation between the two variables, and not a causative link at all (this should be the easier argument to make).
There is no causative link between the U.S. spending on science, space, and technology and suicides by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation. One event does not cause the other to occur.
Barr, C., Cetinkaya-Rundel, M., & Diez, D. (2019). OpenIntro Statistics (4th ed). Retrieved from https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php?stat_book=os