This graph shows the relationship between 2 variables: shoe size and reading level
You can see that as the person's shoe size increases
from 1 to 5, their reading also increases from 1 to 5.
This is another example of a correlation.
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Does reading cause your feet to grow? No.
Does buying bigger shoes cause you to read better? No.
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What is the relationship between these two things?
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Hint: there's one thing that is causing both of these
outcomes.
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Shoe size increasing
Reading level increasing
Notice how even though these 2 things are correlated one does not cause the other, not even indirectly.