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Correlation does not imply causation, but a lack of correlation does imply a
lack of causation.
The famous maxim that “correlation does not imply causation” seems to get
over-interpreted into some kind of suggestion that correlation and causation can
never be related in any way.
One aspect of that is that a lack of correlation does imply that there is no
causation effect going on. If there was a causative relationship between two
things, we would expect to see correlation.
Seeing a lack of correlation between two things does imply that neither causes
the other.
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A lack of correlation does imply a lack of causation
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