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Causation or nothing is a false distinction. Pointing to the existence of some correlations that are spurious does not mean that all correlations are spurious. Every causation results in correlation.

Spurious correlations are easy to find, particularly with 10 data points and hundreds of variables to choose from (lol), but multiple hypothesis testing reveals those as spurious easily.




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