Shark Attacks Correlate with Ice Cream Sales!

This is a prime example of how correlation does not imply causation, although in SEO we often draw conclusions about traffic growth/decline as causal relationships…

Both ice cream sales and shark attacks increase when the weather is hot and sunny, but they are not caused by each other (they are caused by good weather, when many people are at the beach eating ice cream and swimming in the sea).

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