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I once attended a lecture by a well known statistics professor, who demonstrated a similar correlation between the price of a kg of apples and the rate of divo
by fooker 8y ago
I once attended a lecture by a well known statistics professor, who demonstrated a similar correlation between the price of a kg of apples and the rate of divorce in his country.
- paulddraper 8y agoAre apples and divorces plausibly related? Or was the professor simply drawing from an enormous number of metrics to find a spurious relationship (and report just that).
- ajmurmann 8y agoThat snake was trying to tell us something!
- gsich 8y agoAn apple is not mentioned there ;)
- im3w1l 8y agoWell price of apples should approximately reflect general food affordability.
- paulddraper 8y agoHm...so economic hardship causes high apple prices and high divorce rates.
- timr 8y agoThank you. It's depressing how nobody here is observing the obvious, uncontrolled co-variate in this "analysis": per-capita income: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link-fertility-income https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link... Correlation vs cause is no problem for HN if the correlation in question confirms a bias!
- DoreenMichele 8y ago"An apple a day keeps the divorce lawyer away."
- tonyedgecombe 8y agohttp://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- coandco 8y agohttp://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations seems relevant here.