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    A and B are correlated — Carmelics
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    Challenges→RCCP (Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle) is violated

    A and B are correlated

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    so A and B are correlated. No earlier event can screen off this correlation unless it determines that A and B will occur. Since the process is genuinely chancy, there is no such event. Hence RCCP is violated.

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