‘Correlation does not imply causality’. Do you agree with this statement? Why? Why not?

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Correlation only demonstrates one of the three conditions for causality – the fact that there is a relationship between two variables, a and b. It does not indicate a time sequence, so doesn’t tell us whether a came before b in time. It also doesn’t tell us whether the relationship might have been caused by a third underlying variable, c.

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