You see a newspaper headline that claims that eating pizza is deadly. However, when you read the original scientific article cited in the news, you notice that investigators only found a correlation between pizza consumption and death over a 10-year period. Given what you know about correlation, how would you explain this relationship?

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Kamron Torres

16 April, 03:26

You see a newspaper headline that claims that eating pizza is deadly. However, when you read the original scientific article cited in the news, you notice that investigators only found a correlation between pizza consumption and death over a 10-year period. Given what you know about correlation, how would you explain this relationship?

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Answer:Pizza consumption and death are related somehow, but a correlational study cannot reveal any kind of causal relationship.

Explanation:Correlation doesn't mean causation, which means just because there is a relationship in how two variables changes that doesn't necessarily mean that the other is the cause of what happens to the other variable, it just plainly means there is a relation between the two that they seem to take the same direction at the same time or the opposite direction at the same time but that doesn't explain the cause just the existing relation between two variables.