Numberphile has a Do Storks Deliver Babies? video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-d1ApBTFw
There's also the amusing Spurious Correlations site with several examples of convincing looking correlations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-d1ApBTFw
There's also the amusing Spurious Correlations site with several examples of convincing looking correlations
The p-value tells researchers that there's something interesting going on between data sets and further exploration is likely warranted to reveal the true underlying relationship. It's not a proof of a fabricated conclusion. "The golden way to test a causal relation is an appropriately designed experiment, where only the suspected "cause" is varied and the "effect" is observed."
1. https://www.researchgate.net/post/If_correlation_doesnt_impl...