Correlation Is Not Causation

SERIOUSLY! ARE YOU KIDDIN’ ME!! #18 Correlation Is Not Causation Surely There Are People in his Campaign/White House Who Know Better? One of the first lessons my college Statistics 201 professor taught us is that Correlation Is Not Causation. He used an example relevant to the time (mid-1960s polio). He claimed he had proof that a popular soft drink of the time (Bubble Up) was the cause of polio. He showed us charts the compared increased consumption of Bubble Up mirrored the rise in polio cases. His point was clear, just because there’s a correlation does not mean there’s causation. kmortland WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump blamed "blue states" for increasing the nation's death rate from coronavirus, suggesting that if "you take the blue states out" of the equation the United States would be far more competitive with other countries. Trump has long blamed Democratic leaders for a variety of ills, including "Democrat-run" cities where protests against police have occasionally turned violent. But his remarks Wednesday were his most explicit politicization yet of the handling of COVID-19. It comes as Trump has been forced to defend metrics that indicate the U.S. has been in a worse position than many other nations dealing with the pandemic. The president, speaking to reporters at the White House, started off arguing that the United States was handling the virus well compared to other nations "despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/16/trump-blames-blue-states-covid-19-death-rates/5819120002/?fbclid=IwAR2TTQiOVc8jwRWIVoacXWt-f8RRwhodRutoMJyzuzaxwTYIbjHpiUuU1Js

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