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Per capita cheese consumption correlates with deaths by bedsheets
- fasteo 12y agoNot sure what´s the point here, but some notes to open the discussion: - All these correlations are based on the same population (namely, US population); so it´s kind of "normal" to get them. - If this to disqualify the scientists that fall into the "correlation does not mean causation" thing, then you would need to prove it the other way around. That is, prove that there is not causal relation between cheese consumption and death by bedsheets. Fair, isn´t it ? - Science is much more complex than these funny correlations. The hard thing is not to imply causation from correlation, but to identify that there is indeed a correlation between data series.
- chrisBob 12y agoThis seems to be a joke that is poking fun at scientific studies that find correlations in large surveys, and then make fantastic claims. If you look at enough different variables then some of them will show a high degree of correlation.
- nivertech 12y agoI think this site has many nonsense correlations because they using yearly or quarterly datapoints. I guess most of them will not correlate at more detailed timeframes.