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Give an example of a pair of variables where there would likely be a correlation, but no causation.

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Number of people with polio.

Ice cream sales.

Seems like a weird thing to be correlated but I saw a graph with this example and people used to think that ice cream was the reason for polio. It's obvious there's no causation!

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