Eli5: What is the difference between correlation and causation

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Eli5: What is the difference between correlation and causation

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Causation: one thing happens because of the other.
Example: somebody hits you in the face, your face turns red.

~~Correlation: two things happen at the same time, not because of one another.
Example: You walk through a park and a leaf falls of a distant tree.~~ What the others said.

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