“correlation does not imply causation”

Question

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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Answer 1

The way I explain it is… people with older children die sooner, but in MOST cases older children do not cause their parents to die. Just that older children and parental death occur together but are unrelated