I wonder what spurious correlations they'd have got if they'd, for example looked for a correlation on the grounds of race?

When the prediction came true, it fueled new interest in that arguably spurious correlation.

However, academics have long since questioned this method due to the plethora of issues that plague it related to spurious correlation.

The evidence is largely made up based on wishful thinking and spurious correlation.

The reason for the negative correlation of ICT with women is confounded by a spurious correlation.

Their critics argue that the way they took account of this nonuniformity created a spurious correlation.

Like other forms of statistical analysis, badly specified econometric models may show a spurious correlation where two variables are correlated but causally unrelated.

Statistician William S. Gosset in 1914 developed methods of eliminating spurious correlation due to how position in time or space affects similarities.

"The elimination of spurious correlation due to position in time or space".

Of course, there is always the possibility of a spurious correlation.