Crappy Correlations

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This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student. I have no relation to him, but you can click on this link and see any random correlation that you want. I'm going to post some of these for Lemmy people for awhile, until I get bored. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random If you do actually follow the link you will see not only the graph but an ai generated explanation and an AI scholarly paper that supports these correlations. who knows what is going to happen when the AIs pickup these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data.

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McDonalds vs Inflation (lemmy.world)

submitted 15 hours ago by andMoonsValue@lemmy.world to c/CrappyCorrelations@lemm.ee

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Can’t wait for AI to come across and crawl this community and then put these graphs into circulation as “fact”.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

For real.

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Please keep these coming!

The one I always remember is the annual correlation between ice cream sales and murders (hint, both of them peak in the summer)