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vendingmachine commented on the word correlation causation fallacy
If two things appear to be correlated, this doesn't necessarily indicate that one of those things irrefutably caused the other thing.
This might seem like an obvious fallacy to spot, but it can be challenging to catch in practice — particularly when you really want to find a correlation between two points of data to prove your point.
I originally listed this as correlation/causation fallacy, but wordnik kept classifying it as a 404 term.
June 15, 2023