Correlation vs. Causality: The Debunked Link Between Ice Cream and Polio | Freakonomics

Freakonomics Radio Network · 242K views · 2011 · 1:30

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Explains the flawed assumption that ice cream caused polio, illustrating the difference between correlation and causality.

Linked by 9 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including sagepub.com, ucf.edu, libretexts.org, pressbooks.pub, lumenlearning.com.