True or false?

Unfortunately, our intuition can lead us astray when it comes to distinguishing between causality and correlation. For example, eating breakfast has long been correlated with success in school for elementary school children. It would be easy to conclude that eating breakfast causes students to be better learners. It turns out, however, that those who don’t eat breakfast are also more likely to be absent or tardy — and it is absenteeism that is playing a significant role in their poor performance. When researchers tested the breakfast theory, they found that, independent of other factors, breakfast only helps undernourished children perform better.

Intuition, which is feeling or hunch about an event being related to another event could lead someone astray if care is not taken. Being led astray definitetly comes from trying to distinguish between causality and correlation.

This is as aresult of the causative agent in a particular event being as a result of one factors hence the need to be careful when trying to show a relationship between an event and its results that emerged.