Spurious Correlations - 20 Insane Things That Correlate With Each Other
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And it's on the rise!
Now that is weird!
Remember: Correlation is not causation!
Mark Zuckerberg skiing, anyone?
Moguls on moguls. I love it.
Lol at moguls on moguls!
This one is quite curious
and this one:
Stop eating fake food, and stay married?
Ha ha - that one's my second favorite, because Nicolas Cage.
What this teaches us is to question any correlates statistics.
Because there's a chance that the numbers track because coincidence.
Good point, if you look enough you will find correlations in many things.
Or to put it another way: if you look too hard you'll see patterns that don't actually exist.
Or to put it ANOTHER way, fun with data visualization.
Here's what being redditted did to his website yesterday:
1:58 PM May 11 2014