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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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Murder Rate VS Internet Explorer (osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

I definitely felt less murdery after I made the switch to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

One of the few times where correlation and causation are probably actually tied together.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope, that one's definitely legit, the less Internet Exploder I had to deal with as an IT person the less murdery I felt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Now that’s a name I have not read in a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's a crossover with axis don't start at 0!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Took me way too long to figure out the graph wasn't telling me the murder rate I. 2006 was ~75%

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Understandable, have a nice day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

damg they killed all the Internet explorers ☠️