Originally Posted by
Maelochs
Actually, we don't even know if there is a correlation between cause and color ... all we know is that there are certain colors of cars involved in more or fewer accidents than cars of other colors. Maybe the red cars are driven faster, the black more aggressively .... or maybe the black cars are less visible and more likely to be hit.
"Certain color of cars involved" is exactly what a "correlation" is. "Correlation" means something similar to "coincidence" - that two things tend to happen together.