Correlation

A correlation is a pattern in which two or more things change together, more frequently than chance alone causes. Correlation is evidence that a connection can exist. It is not the connection. Only Causation connects an effect to the agent who caused it, and only causation holds responsibility. To punish on correlation -- membership, association, a shared quality, or numbers about a group -- is to punish without causation. That makes innocent victims, as in Collective Punishment. Models on correlation can predict, but they explain no thing without the cause. A prediction that functions is not yet understanding.