Oh absolutely. My favorite example of it is there’s a co-relation between domestic abuse and alcoholism, but the alcohol may not be causing the abuse so much as exacerbating an already violent mindset of the abuser. The actual problem of the abuse isn’t the alcohol… but it doesn’t help.

Thanks for the spurious correlations! Those are delightful. The “slaps roof of the car” meme and divorce rates… Who knew! LOL!