Thread:Comments:New Zealand study finds correlation between church attendance and adolescent obesity/Correlation is not causation

Correlation is not necessarily always causation, and this is an example showing why we shouldn't take it for causation. Some studies state that religious people are more healthy than their secular counterparts, while others say otherwise. Although churchgoing is a sedentary activity, it lasts for a relatively short time. The data found in the study might be a statistical fluke. Therefore, I think that obesity and churchgoing are not necessarily casually connected, more like correlated, since I don't see how they could be connected.

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