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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There are a lot of things that look like they are related, but actually aren’t. I’m sure someone will give a better explanation. I just want to share spurious correlations. There’s a [website](https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) with plenty of statistics that are correlated but don’t have causal relations, like number of people who drowned while falling in a pool seems correlated to number of films Nic Cage appeared in.

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