Question

7. Does correlation analysis provide evidence for causation? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

No,

correlation analysis provide evidence for causation

There is nothing explicit in the mathematics of regression that state causal relationships, and hence one need not explicitly interpret the slope (strength and direction) nor the p-values (i.e. the probability a relation as strong as or stronger would have been observed if the relationship were zero in the population) in a causal manner.

We can say two variables can be related to each other but not necessarily cause each other