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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Correlation is a simple link between two things. For example : 100% of people who drank water in their life died or will die. There is a correlation between drinking water and dying. But there is of course no causality. Drinking water doesn’t kill you. Hope this simple example helped.

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