"Don't conflate correlation with causation."
This was so profound when I heard it the first time that it took me a few minutes to fully figure it out. It landed like a 200lb donkey sky diving into my latte."
I know. Wham! Bam! Kerrang!
Meaning simply that things often ain't what they seem. Meaning that we see things and straight off we make an assumption. That is what we've observed. Problem is that it is based on stuff that is often the effects of another thing rather than the cause of the thing we made the assumption about.
So, don't jump to a conclusion. If you want leaps of imagination then think first and know that just because it makes sense on the first impression it's well worth a further look under the hood.
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