That's the high level view of the problem of correlation and causation. What I'm really saying is how unlikely should we consider these correlations - especiall

That's the high level view of the problem of correlation and causation. What I'm really saying is how unlikely should we consider these correlations - especially correlations over very broad average trends in human behaviour. Now I'm sure there are some statistical tools that would give some sense of how surprising the correlation of these trends is but I'd like to know out of all the things about human society we track how many of them correlate and how closely.