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Why do historians need to distinguish between causation and correlation?
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Why do historians need to distinguish between causation and correlation?

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"Correlation does not imply causation" This phrase is used in statistics to emphasize that a correlation between two variables does not imply that one causes the other. There could be always a third factor involved.
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