Spurious Correlations: Merits of Current Research
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Find an instance where someone had made a claim about a connection between seemingly random events (e.g. sports, health, or political section of a newspaper, in a magazine, or in any other source).
Discuss the merits of what the claim is being made and then poke holes in it, using probability theory and quantifying my answers.
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This solution looks at the connection between two seemingly random events and discusses probability theories to prove a claim between the apparent correlation.
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