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Sure. But with enough datapoints the probability of the correlation being a mere accident is going to be vanishingly small. And by enough I am talking about hu
by sharpneli 12y ago
Sure. But with enough datapoints the probability of the correlation being a mere accident is going to be vanishingly small.
And by enough I am talking about hundreds and more of datapoints. If one looks at things like yearly values of something for within last 10 years like the page spurious correlations is doing one is bound to find some weird ones.
- supine 12y agoPointing out weird correlations that have absolutely no causal link whatsoever is a global sport. https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+correlations https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+correlations The first result is a beauty http://twentytwowords.com/funny-graphs-show-correlation-between-completely-unrelated-stats-9-pictures/ http://twentytwowords.com/funny-graphs-show-correlation-betw...