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The 'line of best fit' is a line that goes roughly through the middle of all the scatter points on a graph. The closer the points are to the line of best fit the stronger the correlation is. This ...

Scientists often use graphs to represent a relationship between two variables. Generally, if there is a correlation between two variables, then they are usually related in some way. In an exam, you ...

Here for spreading far and wide is a graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. Redditor Jasonp55 writes that he was practicing Graph Pad when he produced the ...

Here’s the cure to being duped again. It’s a site called Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen–or more accurately, Tyler Vigen’s software. He created code to spot correlations in public data sets and ...