Question

What does the phrase “Correlation is not causation” mean?

Answer 1

Correlation is not causation

If two events take place at a particular time, and effect and cause take place. That does not mean that these events are effecting the cause and effect.

If an incident take place it is not right to blame a particular thing for it, we have to look it from all the angles and than the main reason will come out which caused the incident.

If A hits B badly and B dies, in that case it does not mean that B died because A has hit him. In that case there can be many causes to B death. B was already suffering from any disease, so he died, or he died because of heart attack. There could be many possibilities that B died because of any other reason.

Recently a country did demonetisation and announced that certain currency in the country will not be legal tender after particular time. After demonetisation the economy started to fall, in this case we cannot blame demonetisation for the economy fall. Many things have to take under consideration, like economy is falling due to new government polices, or by less foreign investment, many causes can be included it.