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Being in a hospital, that effect alone,
increases your of dying by a factor of 4.
Is it causal statement?
It says the hospital causes you to die;
much less, it coincides with the fact that you die.
And very frequently, people in the public get this wrong.
People observe this as a correlation,
but it suggests the correlation is causal,
in attempting to make you understand the statistic as a correlection.
Now to understand why this could be wrong,
let's dive a little bit deeper into the same example.