Spurious Correlations

BevelGear@beehaw.org to Jokes and Humor@beehaw.org – 92 points –

Beware of cheese. You may be next.

More at https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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Ok but why did bedsheet entanglement deaths double between 2000 and 2009? That seems extremely odd.

My guess is that they started noticing it more than before. Sort of like how autism rates skyrocketed once it became something people actually checked.

You can probably get a ton of these correlations because a lot of stuff just depends on population increase.

Yepp, that's exactly the point of the site linked in the post. I could even say: yes, that's the joke.

it's per capita cheese consumption though, so shouldn't it be independent to population increase?

they are just random statistics which are randomly correlating. it's funny. that's it. don't imagine too much into it.