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Correlation and causation are so much fun! As others have said, causation is where something causes the other thing. Correlation is where two things occur.
Human brains leap to conclusions easily and assume a causation when they have a completely unrelated correlation. There is a website, spurious correlations, dedicated to this. [For example, per capita cheese consumption and number of people dying by entanglement in bedsheets.](https://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=7) The data says these are correlated. It certain doesn’t say there is a causation. Cause there ain’t. (Probably.)
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