Pearson’s correlation helps us understand the relationship between two quantitative variables when the relationship between them is assumed to take a linear pattern. The relationship between two ...

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 ...

Learn more about scatter diagrams with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.