I’ve seen this referenced a lot, especially with psychology, but can someone explain what exactly it means? How does correlation not imply causation? Sometimes, does correlation ever imply causation?
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Just because two things happen at the same time does not *necessarily* mean that one *caused* the other.
Often with such fallacies, it can *look* like those two things are linked, since they are contextually related. However, with a bit of critical thinking, you can see that they happened completely independent of each other and one did not *cause* the other.
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