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It correlates.

• close04 7y ago
  https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations (or https://tylervigen.com/old-version.html https://tylervigen.com/old-version.html ). Just in case anyone ever needs come correlation resources :).
  • codeduck 7y ago
    I was being glib about the relevance of the xkcd :-)
  • magashna 7y ago
    Some of those are interesting just because I never assumed it happened or it was being tracked. And some of them are a surprising scale. 800 deaths from being tangled in bedsheets!
  • Symmetry 7y ago
    First, there's a plausible biological link between lead and violence. We can performed double-blind controlled experiments with mice and see it. Second, violence decreased in a given state 15 years after that particular state banned leaded gasoline. And it decreased for the particular cohort that had grown up without leaded gasoline but not particularly otherwise. At a certain point you're left saying something like "Every time I point this gun at someone and pull the trigger they get struck by a bullet but this could be a spurious correlation!"