Cell phones and cancer

July 18, 2011

Topic

Miscellaneous / causation, correlation, humor, xkcd

xkcd pokes fun at correlation and causation again. Funny every time.

2 Comments

Eric — July 18, 2011 at 8:59 pm

http://amultiverse.com/2010/09/27/correlation-loves-causation/
simo — July 19, 2011 at 5:36 am

fun fact, hat guy may be right this time, since cell phones may be caused by almost everything that preceded them in our society :)

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