no, that would indicate spurious correlation
Posted on: April 25, 2017 at 18:45:08 CT
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unless a causal mechanism is known.
In fact, there's no correlation going back, and there isn't really much of one now. But that could be as a result of components of cause, like in a multiple regression. However, correlation is not proof of causation. Ever.