Part 3 - Misrepresentation of correlation in the news or other media:

• Find a news story which falsely claims or implies causation based only on correlational evidence, or find a journal article that studies the misrepresentation of correlation in the media. List the reference, and explain what is misrepresented, what agenda is being supported, and explain if you think the misrepresentation is accidental or deliberate.
• Even if you know that correlation is not a guarantee of causation and it does not necessarily imply a causation, on a scale of 0-10 where 0 is no persuasive effect at all and 10 is maximal persuasive power, when you hear that two things are correlated, how strongly do you suspect that there IS causation? On that same scale, how strongly do you think OTHER people suspect that there IS causation?