If you know the answer is right do you keep moving on to read the other answers?

• What is a correlation? Two factors happening in relation to each other (rates ppl buy ice cream and amt of shark attacks)

• What is one causal explanation for that correlation? (ppl buy ice cream when its hot out, when its hot out ppl like to swim in the ocean leading to more shark attacks)

• What are a few alternative explanations for that correlation? (the shark attacks cause the ice cream sales, the ice cream sales cause the shark attacks, the heat leads to both high ice cream sales and shark attacks, no correlation)

• Do alternative explanations “counter” a correlation? Why or why not? (no because the correlation occurs regardless of if there is an alternate explanation, its an imperfect relationship allowing for some leeway)