re you can place an ant colony and get ant sightings at both X and Y? If not, you’ve got a non-correlating pathway.</p>
<p>Correlating pathways create connections between two variables, X and Y, even when there is no causal influence that runs from X to Y. This becomes a problem for the data analyst, who is often interested in causal connections but whose tools are rooted in detecting <em>correlations</em> between variables.</p>
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