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Originally Posted by Skybird
For methodical reasons (with regard to the paragraph in bold) one needs to remind everybody that correlations do not say anything about wether factor A is causing factor B, or the other way around, and also does not say anything about possible intermittent variables. A correlations only says something on the probability that two variables show up simultaneously - no matter if there are causal links or not.
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..I think it is because they all eat oat bran instead of cheerios...doh!