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rCorrelation Labcoming soon

Moving together is not cause and effect

Why does this exist?

Ice-cream sales and drownings rise together. Jumping from 'correlates' to 'causes' is the data age's biggest fallacy.

Part of the Journey of Uncertainty How do we judge when we cannot know for sure?

🔬 This lab is being built

When it opens, it will follow the same flow as every MathIsland lab:

  1. 1An opening question — the problem this concept solves
  2. 2Why it was needed — where the old tools failed
  3. 3Hands-on experiment — sliders, simulations, direct play
  4. 4Common misconceptions, broken
  5. 5The idea, written as mathematics
  6. 6Where you meet it in real life
  7. 7Connections to the previous and next concepts
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