Variable Relationships: Correlation and Causation

Quality during Design

Quality during Design
Variable Relationships: Correlation and Causation
Oct 19, 2022 Episode 72
Dianna Deeney

Relationships matter! And they can be difficult to understand.

We're taking relationships between variables. Does one variable affect another? Or do they just correlate? Understanding which matters to the values of our decisions.

We talk about the saying "Correlation does not imply causation", how to find a confounding variable, and ways to check that we've got the triggering cause that's going to affect our outcome.

When we're under pressure to figure something out, it's helpful to stop and remember some fundamentals.

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Dianna Deeney is a quality advocate for product development with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing. She is president of Deeney Enterprises, LLC, which helps organizations and people improve engineering design.