Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

May 16, 2014

spurious correlations

Filed under: Humor,Statistics — Patrick Durusau @ 7:44 pm

spurious correlations

You need to put this site on your browser toolbar for meeting where “correlations” are likely to be discussed.

May save a lot of explaining and hand waving on your part about the nature of correlations and causation.

My favorite so far is:

Per capita consumption of cheese (US)

correlates with

Number of people who died by becoming entangled in their bed sheets

cheese and bedsheets

Notice the number of people who died entangled in their bedsheets is 150X the number of Americans who died in domestic terror attacks in 2013. (Death rates from terrorism)

Makes you wonder how much money we are spending to make bedsheets safer for U.S. citizens only.

I first saw this in a tweet by Steven Strogatz.

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