Question

Over a period of years, a certain town observed that the correlation between x, the number of people attending churches, and y, the number of people in the city jail, was r = 0.90. Does going to church cause people to go to jail? Explain why or why not.

Answer 1

No, going to church does not cause people to go to jail, because while there is correlation in the numbers, there is no connection between the two. There is no direct correlation.