Mark Wieczorek

If you look hard enough, you can find correlations all over the place that don’t actually mean anything. For most people this isn’t a big deal, but for scientists spurious correlations can be the difference between a major breakthrough and, well, bad science.

For readers of this blog, it means, unless you can decipher the statistics (if they’re given) in any given study, you may want to take it with a grain of salt.