They Rise Together
by Anonymous · ⭐ 1 · 🍴 0
📈 In months when more ice cream was sold, there were also more swimming accidents. The two graphs stay perfectly together all year — never out of step. Does that mean ice cream causes accidents? ☀️ Check it yourself in the second tab. Raise the temperature and both increase. But set a cold day and sell «30 more» ice creams: the accident count doesn’t budge! Ice cream wasn’t the cause. The dotted “temperature” line on the left made both move together. 🎯 Last: decide what’s what. Study time and test scores, foot size and reading ability, village-name length and rainy days — which is a real cause, a hidden reason, or just a coincidence? This app was made with code too · Remix it with another pair?
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About this app
Rising Together is an interactive data-literacy app that teaches the difference between correlation and causation. Explore monthly ice cream sales and swimming accidents, change temperature and ice cream sales independently, then classify relationships involving studying and test scores, foot size and reading ability, and town-name length and rainy days. Missions, graphs, comparisons, and immediate feedback encourage critical thinking about hidden variables and coincidence.
Use cases
- Students learning correlation and causation
- Teachers introducing data literacy and statistics
- Families discussing misleading patterns in data
- Learners practicing critical-thinking questions
Features
- Compare two line graphs across twelve months
- Select a month and inspect how both values change
- Adjust temperature to see both variables respond
- Add ice cream sales without changing accident counts
- Classify examples as causal, confounded, or coincidental
- Progress through missions with reset, next, and sound controls