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Presenting your findings is a key part of any analysis. In this video we'll talk about how you should present your findings and go over some potential pitfalls!
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there's one very important
thing you need to know.
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Correlation does not imply causation.
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Here is a graph of ice cream
sales versus crime rates.
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It's clear that higher ice cream sales
correlates with higher crime rates.
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But that doesn't mean that higher
ice cream sales causes more crime.
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That'd be ridiculous.
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When you're presenting your findings,
you need to remember that even though two
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things might be related, that doesn't mean
they have anything to do with each other.
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The most you can say is
that they're correlated.
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And on that note, I wonder what a graph
of our age data would look like.
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