This post is about our recent scimatics project about correlation vs. Causation. What does correlation and causation mean you might ask, well causation means the action of causing something, and correlation means connection between two or more things.
For this project I had to create some questions that could show correlation or causation and ask the class PLP 9 through a survey.
Before we started this project we had to make some project plan graphs.
The way I thought of my questions was thinking of things that some teenagers do and because we wanted to have most of the questions correlated to other questions.
the questions were
The causation questions were “what is your favourite subject?” And “what subject are you best in?” The reason as to why these to questions are a causation graph is because most people do better or try harder in a class that they like more.
Peoples favourite subject: 1 Art, 3 basketball academy, 8 humanities, 7 scimatics, 2 I don’t know, 2 woodwork.
Peoples best subject: 6 humanities, 5 scimatics, 5 I don’t know, 1 French, 6 maker
In conclusion we learned though this project that somethings could have a correlation but might not directly cause that and that somethings might directly effect something but might not have a correlation.