All of those (and more) shown in this amazing work now available as a book "Spurious correlations" :) http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations …
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Ability causes wealth is a particularly awful one that everybody just decided to start building their countries around.
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This one is hardly even a correlation
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By far the biggest confusion is nonsense about ‘post hoc propter hoc’ so called fallacies, which have nothing whatsoever to do with correlation (which is involved in all cases of causation).
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I think the most common confusion is that the two are generally inseparable. There's this sort of nihilism that anything you can't experimentally control can't be proven causal.
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Everyone has a cocaine snorting executive they’ve met b4,..
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anything comparing two maps that are both essentially population density maps (cell towers cause cancer, veterinarians cause women, whatever)
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Fat people are just lazy or greedy Rich people because they have a great routine poor people don’t try harder
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That a corporation that does well should also have a share price that does well. Plenty of times these are not even correlated, but insofar as they are over the very long run, it still is not causal at the core. The causal thread in markets is super tenuous and goes both ways.
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this is a decent example:https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1364880543721152513?s=20 …
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