Question

What examples have you seen in health, medicine or the media where associations have been misinterpreted as causation? What were the implications of assuming causation in this situation? write only 250 words.

Answer 1

The examples where health, medicine or media associations have been misinterpreted as causation are like as follows namely:

• the graph depicting the cause of death in spacecraft due to defect in automobile seatbelts manufacturing.
• The misinterpreted graph depicting the absurd figures of the number of cases of unemployment under the presidential rule of Barack Obama.
• the media advertising reporting the number of people who opted for healthcare facilities turned up being terrorists in the country.
• manufacturing of a vaccine which increases the incidence of the disease autism among people.
• advertisement reporting that the intake of junk food does not cause obesity in people.
• depression is linked to the intake of excessive alcohol by people

These examples are based on absurd results and correlations among different variables which cannot be proved as holding a significant relationship as advertised in the media. The implications of assuming causation causes the availability of absurd unrelated factors which are responsible for the origination of such events. The real factors should be understood and interpreted in detail. It is difficult to analyze the real causes of the confounding variables under the experimental study.