The researchers contend that as a result scientists may use the visual effect of scatter plots to “nudge readers toward these unfounded causal correlations,” or reporters “conflate correlation and ...

A scatterplot chart graphs two related data values as a single dot by plotting one value on the horizontal X axis and the other value on the vertical Y axis. For example, you could plot an ...

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