skunkbear: These are “spurious correlations“ (created by Tyler Vigen) paired with a comic (by XKCD). Here’s the cool thing: Vigen points out that when we laugh at these correlations we are actually acting like scientists. He explains it better

skunkbear: These are “spurious correlations“ (created by Tyler Vigen) paired with a comic (by XKCD). Here’s the cool thing: Vigen points out that when we laugh at these correlations we are actually acting like scientists. He explains it better

tags: A Collection of Curiosities, mathematics,statistics,graphs,correlations,facts,

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