"The best example of false causality was the **supposed relationship between the birth rate and the numbers of stork pairs in Germany**. Both were in decline, and if you plot them on a graph the two lines of development from 1965 to 1987 appeared almost identical. Does this mean the stork actually does bring babies? Obviously not, since this was a purely coincidental correlation.” -- --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[story-bias]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], [[false-causality]], [[coincidence]], [[association-bias]], [[clustering-illusion]], [[story-bias]], [[induction]], [[beginner-luck]] , [[correlation]], **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]