In statistics why isnt correlation equal to causation?

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Why are further post-hoc analysis required? I guess the question would be is what is correlation?

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It is more likely that more people carry umbrellas when the weather forecast says that it will be rainy. Since weather forecasts are more accurate than not, a rainy weather forecasts is correlated to rain. However neither carrying umbrellas nor rainy weather forecasts cause rain to fall.

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