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by holycow19 4496 days ago
Wrong verbage here - would suggest seems better?
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Probably. One of the answers on there also has a discussion of referring to it as 'correlation', which has a specific statistical meaning that is often ignored when people trot out "Correlation != Causation".

A better wordsmithed version of the question would probably be "Does Association Suggest Causation?"

Correlation does not always mean Pearson's r², which is the thing with a specific statistical meaning. There are other specific correlations, and general correlation.
Never the less, I think 'association' is a better general term.