IceCreams and Drowning

True or False?

The blue dots in the above graph represent ice cream sales rate versus drowning rate in several beaches. We can observe in the graph that as the number of ice cream sales increases, the drowning rate also increases. Hence, ice cream consumption causes drowning.

True False

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Kaushik Chandra
Jun 16, 2017

Actually, the ice cream consumption increases as the inflow of visitors increase. It is due to the increase in the number of people visiting the beach that more people drown.

Actually , we have to find out that why the consumption of Ice cream started increasing . There must be some other reason which cause this . Maybe Summer is approaching or the inflow of visitors is increasing. If we assume that Summer is approaching then the ice -caps will melt a bit more and increase the sea- level will increase a bit .

So, we get the idea that the increase in ice cream is possibly not the only cause of death.

Yeah, Ice cream consumption can also lead to drowning. If some chemicals were to be present in the ice cream they might inhance drowning by some sort of biochemical process.

I was thinking about this, is it valid to say that "A single other factor not shown in the graph causes both."

At first I thought, no way, but then I thought about it a bit longer and realized that the above sentence could very well be true, if we assume the data isn't just based on chance.

Alex Li - 3 years, 11 months ago

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Please read my updated solution. I hope it's better . 😊

Kaushik Chandra - 3 years, 11 months ago

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