Correlation does not imply causation, or so they say. What causes people to say that? You might ask that question of Tyler Vigen (pictured here), who is a student at Harvard Law School and a former store detective (at Macy’s) and also formerly a military geospacial intelligence analyst. Or you might ask Wikipedia. Or ask XKCD. Correlation does, by the way, imply correlation.
Here’s one of Tyler Vigen’s spurious correlations:
People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat
correlates with
Marriage rate in Kentucky
Here’s another:
Industrial manufacturing doctorates awarded (US)
correlates with
Per capita consumption of motzarella cheese (US)
