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[โ€“] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

When data correlates, that means that there is a liklihood that there is some connection.

Yup. There's a reason it's called co-relation.

[โ€“] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

Things can very much be co-related without one causing the other (e.g. when both are consequences of a third cause). And of course, correlated things can be completely unrelated still.

(And to emphasise: yes, it is also possible that there is a causal relation between correlated things.)