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This is a statistical correlation. You might as well say that eating ice cream causes drowning. Why? People eat more ice cream on hot days. People swim more on
by rdmcfee 17y ago
This is a statistical correlation. You might as well say that eating ice cream causes drowning. Why? People eat more ice cream on hot days. People swim more on hot days. Increase in swimming means increase in drowning, therefore when people eat ice cream they are more likely to drown.
When old people drive cars they are more likely to crash therefore when old people drive a Prius they are more likely to crash.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoIf 24 people drowned in my town, and the majority of them were holding an ice cream cone when they did, the ice cream truck driver would probably be a suspect