Spurious correlations: an engine for head-scratching coincidences

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Obviously margarine consumption leads directly to divorce in Maine :wink: Divorce rate in Maine correlates with Per capita consumption of margarine (US)

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Love it! Marriage rate in Colorado correlates with Domestically produced passenger cars sold (US). Save marriage, buy American. Everyone who drives a foreign car is responsible for ending a marriage in Colorado.

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ā€˜Per capita consumption of cheeseā€™ ~ Death by ā€˜tangled in their bedsheetsā€™
Death by ā€˜tangled in their bedsheetsā€™ ~ ā€˜Total revenue generated by skiing facilitiesā€™

Save the Slopes. Eat more Cheese!

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Iā€™m not convinced that all of these are spurious:

Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets
correlates with
People who died by falling out of their bed

http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1478

Total revenue generated by arcades (US)
correlates with
Computer science doctorates awarded (US)

http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=97

Number people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool
correlates with
Number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in

http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=359

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Glitches in the matrixā€¦

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Man, you read my mind [takes hit]ā€¦ Dude, do you ever wonderā€¦ suppose this whole universe was just some kind ofā€¦ giant computer simulationā€¦ how would we ever know?.. Hey, this is good shit, manā€¦

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Conclusive PROOF in the copyright wars: http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation.php?id=978

I was going to add a correlation between uranium production and the number of lawyers, but the siteā€™s down at the moment. Coincidence? Hey, Iā€™m just presenting the evidence here. You decide.

(What, you need even more PROOF? Just wait till the siteā€™s back up.)

[takes hit]ā€¦ Dude, do you ever wonderā€¦ suppose this whole universe was just some kind ofā€¦ giant computer simulationā€¦

(takes hit) You meant multiverse, right?

That picture suggests you got the baggie with the weed mixed up with the one with the DMTā€¦

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Anythingā€™s possible.

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Ok, the last one was a joke, but surely the fact that ā€œPrecipitation in California inversely correlates with Sunlight in Californiaā€ canā€™t be regarded as spurious.

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Quite simply, Iā€™m amazed that the ā€œNumber of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheetsā€ exceeds, exponentially, the ā€œNumber of people who drowned after falling out of a fishing boatā€. People really die by getting wrapped up in bed? Maybe certain parts of Boston, NYC, and Philly are to blame for this trend.

I would assume that this is mostly infants.

Yeah, that occurred to meā€“thatā€™s a sad statistic, some 300+ kids (or people not paying the vig) throttling themselves in bed. I think I thought a little too much about the stats on that site to make it enjoyable.

Not perfect (Correlation: 0.958), but just look at this correlation ā€“ just look at it:

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