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"spurious correlation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when two variable appear to be correlated, but the relationship is actually not causal. For example, "The data suggested that there was a spurious correlation between ice cream sales and shark attacks."
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Because these variables correlate with each other, untangling cause from spurious correlation is challenging.
SPURIOUS correlation is a bane of science.
Of course, there is always the possibility of a spurious correlation.
O.K., you know what to do: Google "spurious correlation health".
Clinton's supporters deserve to know whether this apparent statistical anomaly is the result of a hack against our election system or a spurious correlation.
Spurious correlation seems unlikely given that the results do not change at all when I control, inter alia, for overall management quality (Dissanaike, Drobetz, Momtaz, 2019).
Our conclusions are robust because four alternative hypotheses that may generate a spurious correlation between grazing and coral recruitment were tested and rejected.
In evidencing this effect of site area, we avoid problems of spurious correlation that confound previous studies.
Before we get to those examples of spurious correlation, let me note one fact about the game coming up.
Here's what won't make a good headline: "Small and Spurious Correlation Shown to Have Been Backward, but It Doesn't Matter That Much, Because the Point of the Paper Was That There Is No Underlying Causation After All".
Dornan said this was a "textbook case of spurious correlation", adding it was like showing rising divorce rates and falling smoking levels on the same graph and then trying to claim they were linked.
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