Correlation is a necessary component of causation which I think is why it's so tempting to conflate the two.
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Correlation does not (by itself) prove causality, but it absence of correlation is pretty strong evidence against causality. I explain this in Not Trivial.http://nottrivialbook.com
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And here I really thought Christmas cards caused Christmas.
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David skeptics like you cause death
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