{"id":8922,"date":"2011-07-21T05:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2013-07-17T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:41:35","slug":"casey-anthony-trial-kmart-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/casey-anthony-trial-kmart-jobs\/8922\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Sigma Kmart and Casey Anthony: Correlation is not Causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Six Sigma Kmart and Casey Anthony is a good example of how correlation is not causation<\/p>\n<p>Continuing our investigation into Crazy Correlations, today we look at a case that completely validates the mantra that correlation is definitely not causation; put another way, just because there appears to be a relationship between one event and another event, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that they are related. Today we look at Kmart Jobs and Casey Anthony.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is Casey Anthony?<\/h2>\n<p>In all honesty, I am very clueless as to current media hype events. But, apparently, Casey Anthony is a person who allegedly killed her daughter. In the United States, this has been a big deal with news of the murder trial all over the television. Last week, I guess, Casey Anthony was found Not Guilty by the Jury and the court released from Jail. Anyway, that&#8217;s all I care to know. Moving on. Not quite yet. Writing this post was a bit painful because I truly don&#8217;t care who Casey Anthony is or the media circus surrounding her murder trial. But, her case does serve to illustrate something interesting about regression analysis. Anyways, I&#8217;ll suffer through the embarrassment in order to illustrate something about the regression model. What is really interesting is the relationship between the phrase &#8220;Casey Anthony&#8221; and &#8220;Kmart Jobs&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8923 aligncenter\" title=\"casey-anthony-jose-baez\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/casey-anthony-jose-baez.jpg\" width=\"582\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/casey-anthony-jose-baez.jpg 727w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/casey-anthony-jose-baez-600x352.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The correlation coefficient or, R^2,\u00a0 shows 0.9160 which means that almost all of the variation can be explained by the regression model. In other words, without any other context involved, there&#8217;s definitely a strong relationship between Casey Anthony and Kmart Jobs. But is this true? In all honesty, I don&#8217;t care and you probably don&#8217;t either. Here&#8217;s the point: just because there appears to be a strong relationship between one variable to another, that doesn&#8217;t really mean there are necessarily related. Unless of course Casey Anthony will be working at Kmart now that she&#8217;s out of jail. Previous Correlation exercises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"lean six sigma certification\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/crazy-correlation-lean-six-sigma-certification-and-florida\/8796\/\">Lean Six Sigma Certification and Florida<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"net promoter score\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/lean-six-sigma-net-promoter-score-nps-correlation\/8793\/\">Lean Six Sigma and Net Promoter Score<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Sigma Kmart and Casey Anthony is a good example of how correlation is not causation Continuing our investigation into Crazy Correlations, today we look at a case that completely validates the mantra that correlation is definitely not causation; put another way, just because there appears to be a relationship between one event and another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12327,"featured_media":11480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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