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According to the Wikipedia page on Spurious correlations, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but not causally related, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third, unseen factor (referred to as a "common response variable", "confounding factor", or "lurking variable").
I am a software engineer who majored in English (go figure); most of my edits on Wikipedia occur as a result of a random WikiHole I fell into and found an obscure or neglected article at the bottom of.
I would say my editing style follows my writing style; I am a firm believer in "Less is More". While I wouldn't say I firmly subscribe to a side, I tend in practice to be more of a Deletionist as a result. I think that as a whole Wikipedia (at least the WP:Commons and English sites) are following a logistic function in terms of number of articles, which makes sense. Nowadays, most editors will not start by creating new article stubs, but rather by helping improve the vast information already present. While WP:NOTPAPER is true, Wikipedia is also not a junkyard.
