Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What Is Statistics
- Season 1 Mathematical Thinking
- Season 1 Mean, Median, and Mode: Measures of Central Tendency
- Season 1 Measures of Spread
- Season 1 Charts Are Like Pasta - Data Visualization Part 1
- Season 1 Plots, Outliers, and Justin Timberlake: Data Visualization Part 2
- Season 1 The Shape of Data: Distributions
- Season 1 Correlation Doesn’t Equal Causation
- Season 1 Controlled Experiments
- Season 1 Sampling Methods and Bias with Surveys
- Season 1 Science Journalism
- Season 1 Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection
- Season 1 Probability Part 1: Rules and Patterns
- Season 1 Probability Part 2: Updating Your Beliefs with Bayes
- Season 1 The Binomial Distribution
- Season 1 Geometric Distributions and The Birthday Paradox
- Season 1 Randomness
- Season 1 Z-Scores and Percentiles
- Season 1 The Normal Distribution
- Season 1 Confidence Intervals
- Season 1 How P-Values Help Us Test Hypotheses
- Season 1 P-Value Problems
- Season 1 Playing with Power: P-Values Pt 3
- Season 1 You Know I’m All About that Bayes
- Season 1 Bayes in Science and Everyday Life
- Season 1 Test Statistics
- Season 1 T-Tests: A Matched Pair Made in Heaven
- Season 1 Degrees of Freedom and Effect Sizes
- Season 1 Chi-Square Tests
- Season 1 P-Hacking
- Season 1 The Replication Crisis
- Season 1 Regression
- Season 1 ANOVA
- Season 1 ANOVA Part 2: Dealing with Intersectional Groups
- Season 1 Fitting Models Is like Tetris
- Season 1 Supervised Machine Learning
- Season 1 Unsupervised Machine Learning
- Season 1 Intro to Big Data
- Season 1 Big Data Problems
- Season 1 Statistics in the Courts
- Season 1 Neural Networks
- Season 1 War
- Season 1 When Predictions Fail
- Season 1 When Predictions Succeed
Crash Course Statistics - Season 1 Episode 8 Correlation Doesn’t Equal Causation
2.00 13 minutes Today we’re going to talk about data relationships and what we can learn from them. We’ll focus on correlation, which is a measure of how two variables move together, and we’ll also introduce some useful statistical terms you’ve probably heard of like regression coefficient, correlation coefficient (r), and r^2. But first, we’ll need to introduce a useful way to represent bivariate continuous data - the scatter plot. The scatter plot has been called “the most useful invention in the history of statistical graphics” but that doesn’t necessarily mean it can tell us everything. Just because two data sets move together doesn’t necessarily mean one CAUSES the other. This gives us one of the most important tenets of statistics: correlation does not imply causation.
