Sentence examples for false correlation from inspiring English sources

We are entering the world here of what statisticians call false correlation — and what sportswriters call irrefutable evidence.

There was a false correlation in the 2005 Ashes: the idea that England's victory in a Twenty20 match at The Rose Bowl set up their Ashes win.

Overally, the study seems to find a false correlation between gadgetry and doltishness.

ACPDR was in their assessment worried about inaccurate data causing false correlation.

This is obviously a false correlation – the outlets I've written for have always been amazing in their own right – but it's how I went about my business.

Those rank statistics are however not immune to the effect of confounding variables, and data with an underlying categorical variable may display a false correlation that is somewhat akin to an ecological fallacy when the marginal distributions differ between the groups implied by this confounder.

In the H H STOCSY 60% of the peaks were falsely correlated, but the C C STOCSY had only 20% false correlations, as indicated in columns 4 and 5 of Table 1.

I think these false correlations exist because chocolate consumption, Nobel Prize winning and Winter Olympic medals are all correlated with something else which is not ever raised in these studies.

Everyone knows that creating false correlations between two unrelated elements is easy.

Mr. Blastland and Mr. Dilnot advise their readers to beware of weaselly phrases like "could be as high as"; broad comparisons, especially international ones, that aren't really measuring like against like; and false correlations.

False correlations can occur if the biological data used include experimental errors.