[Informatics] Spurious Correlations

Mark mark at vceit.com
Wed Mar 20 03:32:15 UTC 2019


If it has no images of you entangled in butter-soaked bedsheets, I would be
happy to have it. 😱

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 14:27, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I recall something between butter consumption and deaths from tangled
> bedsheets.
>
> Say, I have a correlation >< causation slideshow to share if anybody is
> interested.
>
> Regards Roland
>
> On 20 Mar 2019, at 12:23 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
> Really informative and funny, Andrew.
>
> But I must admit the correlation between deaths from falling from fishing
> boats vs marriage rates just *might* actually be worth investigating.
> I can see the causal connection.
>
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 18:17, Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Today I was introduced to the site about Spurious Correlations
>>
>> I love it
>>
>> http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
>>
>> Great for checking your hypothesis ideas for the SAT
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
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