what’s the difference between correlation and causation?
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If I were to dump a bucket of water over your head, you would become soaking wet. My dumping the bucket of water over your head CAUSED you to become soaking wet.
If a teenage boy starts masturbating and developing acne, the masturbation is not causing his acne, and his acne is not causing his masturbation. Instead, the new hormones in his system are responsible for both. The masturbation and the acne are CORRELATED (literally co-related).
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