Now an example of this is how in some cases it can be statistically shown that as the number of liquor stores in a town increases so do the number of churches built. So one could conclude that if a town hoped to have more churches all they need to do is build more liquor stores, right? Well of course this is complete nonsense since the two, liquor stores and churches, aren't correlated at all. Now a better explanation for this situation is that as a town grows in population, there'll be some who like to visit liquor stores and some who like to attend church.