View the video and read the article at the Australian Bureau of Statistics website (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/a3121120.nsf/home/statistical+language+-+correlation+and+causation).

A school district found that the number of absences in a school increased with the decrease in temperatures. When a correlation coefficient between absences and temperatures was calculated, it was shown to be negative - one increases when the other decreases.

1. How would you interpret this in terms of the correlation of the data and causation (a decrease in temperatures causes an increase in absences)?