[Closed] Correlation vs Causation

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the scary bit is the one I found was actually being serious.....

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To be fair, the industrial revolution probably wouldn't have been quite as successful without copious supplies of coal...

very true but to claim more coal = better life expectancy is a little bit of over reach there.

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And so on - taken from [url= http://tylervigen.com/ ]here[/url]

@mike - very good.

I like this one - mainly because I'm looking at the graph and wondering if there is a common causative factor between the two! The spike in 2006 in divorce rates - economic effects of Katrina?

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Though now looking at the scale, it now doesn't look like a spike at all. 😳

Hmmm... that cheese consumption vs bedsheet self-strangulation one makes perfect sense:

more cheese = more nightmares = more unsettled sleep = more strangulation.

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Such was the discussion that ensued when it was posted on Yammer at work!

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Careless cyclists and careless microlightists are drawn from the same pool..?

Hmmm... that cheese consumption vs bedsheet self-strangulation one makes perfect sense:

more cheese = more nightmares = more unsettled sleep = more strangulation.

An average of 600 people a year are dying in the US after getting tangled in their bedsheets? 😯

Another advantage of our cosy European duvets.

(Mind you I suspect hundreds of people die each year trying to put a kingsize duvet cover on)