A sociologist concludes that pool drownings can be reduced i

A sociologist concludes that pool drownings can be reduced if swimmers are banned from eating ice cream at the pool because the correlation between ice-cream bars and pool drownings is 92%. Give your thoughts as to the validity of this hypothesis.

Solution

Correlation calculated is 92% which is near to 100%, can be called to STRONG POSITIVE CORRELATION. There is strong association between  ice-cream bars and pool drownings . If one factor is reduced another withh go down & vice versa. When pool drownings reduced if swimmers are banned from eating ice cream at the pool.