Why is natural to associate correlation with causation?

A. Causal reasoning uses inductive reasoning.
B. Causal reasoning is an important survival skill.
C. Correlation suggests that things will be correlated in the future.
D. Where two things go together, one assumes that they are specially linked.


D

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