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What Does Extramarital Sex Have to Do with Acacia Trees? Everything.

Sarah Hedgecock · 11/14/13 05:38PM

We're taught from a young age that correlation doesn't mean causation. But it's easy to get sucked in by studies claiming that, say, a more active sex life means a fatter wallet: Although it's often much more complicated than A-equals-B, correlational studies are much easier to process and share. But two brave researchers recently published a paper aiming to show how ridiculous we all look bragging about our chocolate consumption to all our closest Facebook friends.