Correlation

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The idea, first articulated by statistician Karl Pearson<ref>So Slate Magazine argues, at any rate, that a relationship between two variables could be characterised according to its strength and expressed in numbers.

Now it is true that Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it doesn’t rule it out either. All other things being equal, a correlation is more likely to evidence a causation than a lack of correlation, right?