nerate ant sightings at both X and Y even though an individual ant can’t move from X to Y. That is, <span class="math inline">\(Y \leftarrow C \rightarrow X\)</span> has an ant connection between Y and X and vice versa.</p>
<p>Our data consists only of ant sightings. Two variables being connected is indicated by simultaneous ant sightings at each of the two nodes representing the variables. We will call the type of connection where ants can show up at two nodes a “<strong>correlating pathway</strong>”