A well-known refrain, I know, but correlation does not imply causation[0]. Spurious Correlations[1] has been posted here many times[2], but a few representativ

A well-known refrain, I know, but correlation does not imply causation[0]. Spurious Correlations[1] has been posted here many times[2], but a few representative examples may be worth sharing just the same: Per capita cheese consumption correlates with Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets Total revenue generated by arcades correlates with Computer science doctorates awarded in the US Japanese passenger cars sold in the US correlates with Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau... [1] https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=spurious%20correlations&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=spurious%20correlations&sort=b...