Which relationships represent correlation and which more likely represent a causal relationship?
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Vaccine rates increase, which reduces the rates of communicable viral diseases.Ice cream sales go down while firewood sales go up.A decreasing honeybee population means fewer almond tree flowers are pollinated, reducing the crop.Vaccine rates increase and so do the rates of diagnoses of autism.
Type of Relationship
Correlation
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Causation
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Correlation
- Ice cream sales go down while firewood sales go up.
- Vaccine rates increase and so do the rates of diagnoses of autism.
Causation
- Vaccine rates increase, which reduces the rates of communicable viral diseases.
- A decreasing honeybee population means fewer almond tree flowers are pollinated, reducing the crop.