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Why correlation is not causation

Ice cream sales and drowning deaths are strongly positively correlated across the weeks of a year.

Does ice cream cause drowning? Enumerate the possible explanations for an observed correlation between XX and YY, and describe what it takes to establish causation.

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This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.

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