"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" I've always wondered about the data behind the graph, but with Mann not being willing to drop the data, I gave up. It's li

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" I've always wondered about the data behind the graph, but with Mann not being willing to drop the data, I gave up. It's like the great graph that in the 70's showed the birth rate over the last 50 years and the stock market and how that they oddly matched. They matched because like Mann they used heavily smoothed data. There have been a plethora of data busts in the last few years where people tried to claim a correlation. Sometimes r is not your friend.