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What is the illusion of causality?

Updated: 9/15/2023
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When people chose as an explanation for an event the event that precedes it or that happened closely before it. Also by having stereotype, wide explanations. We are pushed by our nature (say common sense) to get a fast explanation. Correlation is not causation. Also see false dilemma.

My kid got sick because the strange man smiled to him. / He got hit by the bus because he was a sinner.

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