I have a math lesson. Wait—bear with me, please!
In an introductory statistics class in graduate school (also taught in 4th grade math in the state of Virginia), one of the first principles we learned is that two unrelated things can be correlated, or seem to have a relationship with one another, just by chance. For instance, if you talked to thousands of people and asked them thousands of questions, you might find that those who have a high IQ also may be more likely to wear red bloomers. Do these two things have a real relationship? That is one of the most basic purposes of statistics: to determine the likelihood that two things are related by accident, or whether they have some sort of real connection (i.e., one caused the other, or a third thing caused both, and so on).
And now it’s story time.
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