Yes, exactly how I was using it, because it is a widely used phrase in discussing statistics, and especially when teaching statistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/

Yes, exactly how I was using it, because it is a widely used phrase in discussing statistics, and especially when teaching statistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau... It is also of particular importance when discussing time series statistics because spurious correlations are extremely common.