{"id":2503,"date":"2013-08-02T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"\"Naked<\/a>In a recent episode of the economics podcast\u00a0Planet Money<\/em>, the hosts interview Chris\u00a0Wheelan, author of the new book,\u00a0Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0In their conversation, they explore the challenge every researcher faces: how do I know what causes what? \u00a0How can I distinguish between causation and mere coincidence? \u00a0Drawing meaningful conclusions from your research (and analyzing the conclusions of other researchers) depends on making this distinction.<\/p>\n

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  1. Do you know of any examples of mistaken causation? \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Consider the ongoing debate about the dangers of vaccinations. \u00a0Some are concerned that vaccinations can cause autism; others deny the causal connection, arguing it’s merely a correlation. \u00a0What do you think? \u00a0What kind of research would help you sort it out?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    In a recent episode of the economics podcast\u00a0Planet Money, the hosts interview Chris\u00a0Wheelan, author of the new book,\u00a0Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data. \u00a0In their conversation, they explore the challenge every researcher faces: how do I know what causes what? \u00a0How can I distinguish between causation and mere coincidence? \u00a0Drawing meaningful conclusions from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8023,"featured_media":0,"parent":1460,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T2tB-En","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions\/2655"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}