xkcd pokes fun at correlation and causation again. Funny every time.
http://amultiverse.com/2010/09/27/correlation-loves-causation/
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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There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. This is how different groups of people died over the past 10 years, visualized by age.
A look at the rise for each state over three decades, for men and women.
In English, there’s an idiom that notes confusion: “It’s all Greek to me.” Other languages have similar sayings, but they don’t use Greek as their point of confusion.
How good or bad something is depends on what you compare against.
http://amultiverse.com/2010/09/27/correlation-loves-causation/
fun fact, hat guy may be right this time, since cell phones may be caused by almost everything that preceded them in our society :)