Spurious Correlations[1] has been posted here many times[2], but a few representative examples may be worth sharing just the same:
Per capita cheese consumption correlates with Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets
Total revenue generated by arcades correlates with Computer science doctorates awarded in the US
Japanese passenger cars sold in the US correlates with Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
[1] https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=spurious%20correlations&sort=b...
Spurious Correlations[1] has been posted here many times[2], but a few representative examples may be worth sharing just the same:
Per capita cheese consumption correlates with Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets
Total revenue generated by arcades correlates with Computer science doctorates awarded in the US
Japanese passenger cars sold in the US correlates with Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
[1] https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=spurious%20correlations&sort=b...