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Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

Humans are evolutionarily predisposed to see patterns, we confuse coincidence with correlation and correlation with causality.  Always keep this in mind when studying your analytics data.

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Arrrrrrrrrrg! You’re ruining meeee analytics…

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Ha ha. I love it!

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