Correlation is not causation. Watch this video on how this issue is especially relevant to nutrition studies:

Retrieved from:https://youtu.be/OJGkHkNdDdILinks to an external site.

Also read this article from Five Thirty Eight:You Can't Trust What You Read About Nutrition _ FiveThirtyEight.pdf

Actions

(https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/Links to an external site.)

Go out and find an article or headline in science news that conflates the concepts of correlation and causation. Quote the headline and link to the article. Explain the implications of reading the headline and assuming causation, what conclusion would a person reach by doing so? Why is this a problem and why would this be incorrect?