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Video:
Understanding Correlation Through Dance Movements
Description: This video clip demonstrates basic concepts of correlations through dance movements.

Calculation of Pearson’s correlation coefficient
Description: This video clip shows how to calculate Pearson’s correlation coefficient, r, by hand.

Correlation and Causation
Description: This video clip describes how correlation does not mean causation and the role of confounding variable.

Danger of Mixing Correlation and Causation
Description: This TED talk by Ionica Smeets gives several examples that show correlational relationship between two variables, but concluding causality from such correlations could be misleading.