Susan Perry tells us of a great new website called Spurious Correlations, which was started earlier this month by Tyler Vigen, a first-year Harvard Law School student. By plotting data from the U.S. Census and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention side-by-side, Vigen has been able to “discover” uncanny correlations between, say, --the divorce rate in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine (Eating margarine causes divorce!); --U.S. spending on science, space and technology and the number of suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation (Giving money to science causes people to kill themselves!), and --U.S. per capita consumption of cheese and the number of people who die from becoming tangled in their bed sheets (Eating cheese can cause you to suffocate in your sleep!). The website: tylervigen/ minnpost/second-opinion/2014/05/root-canals-cause-cancer-and-other-spurious-correlations?utm_source=MinnPost+e-mail+newsletters&utm_campaign=2903a4a8bf-5_27_2014_Daily_Newsletter5_27_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3631302e9c-2903a4a8bf-123605705
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 18:03:40 +0000
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