The word that means to combine two or more ideas into one is conflate. In the context you provided, "conflate" is used to describe the incorrect merging of the concepts of correlation and causation.
Select the word that means combine two or more ideas into one.
when two events occur together, they are said to be correlated. however, people are often tempted to believe incorrecty that one of the correlated events causes other. for example, people with blonde hair often have blue blues. if you conflate correlation and causation, you may think that because they happen together, blonde hair causes blue eyes however, gentictests belive that the gense for blond hair and blue eyes are simply likely to be found in the same individuals-neither is the cause of the other
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