6. Further reading

In the following short article, the British Psychological Society report on a study looking at misleading headlines that imply correlational findings are causal. An interesting read looking at how a subtle change in language can change readers’ perceptions.

How much are readers misled by headlines that imply correlational findings are causal? | BPS [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

On his website, Spurious correlations, Tyler Vigen uses AI to generate reports on data variables that show a relationship. He also explains how he comes to these relationships and how to use Python code to find your own ‘spurious’ relationships. Here is the report for the UFO headline seen in Section 3.4.

UFO sightings in Nevada correlates with Budget for largest movie production (r=0.838)