{"id":14353,"date":"2023-04-15T02:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T02:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/name-at-least-2-problems-with-the-structure-of-this-graph-and-how-to-correct-them-do-these-problems-misrepresent-the-data-explain\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T02:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T02:50:37","slug":"name-at-least-2-problems-with-the-structure-of-this-graph-and-how-to-correct-them-do-these-problems-misrepresent-the-data-explain","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/name-at-least-2-problems-with-the-structure-of-this-graph-and-how-to-correct-them-do-these-problems-misrepresent-the-data-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"Name at least 2 problems with the structure of this graph and how to correct them. Do these problems misrepresent the data? Explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster cites a correlation<br \/>\nbetween pirates and natural disasters:<br \/>\n\u201cYou may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural<br \/>\ndisasters are a direct result of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. As you can see,<br \/>\nthere is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperatu<\/p>\n<p>Name at least 2 problems with the structure of this graph and how to correct them.<br \/>\nDo these problems misrepresent the data? Explain.<br \/>\nThis graph, and the claim asserted to go with it, are presented to demonstrate the point<br \/>\nthat, \u201cCorrelation does not necessarily imply causation.\u201d<br \/>\n Explain what this means, and why it matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster cites a correlation between pirates and natural disasters: \u201cYou may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct result of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. As you can see, there is a statistically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[275],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}