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Correlation can be two things that seem to to follow the same pattern.
There was a statistic with number of people drowning in pools and the number of movies Nicolas Cage appeared in on a yearly basis. The numbers follow the same pattern. It is however safe to say that the numbers of movies Nic Cage stars in have no impact on the number of drowning deaths. So this is an example of something being correlated but there is no causation.
The number of people buying ice cream goes up when the weather gets hotter so the two are correlated. But since people buy more ice cream because of the heat there is also causation.
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