(I’m sorting communities by new and adding to any I have decent content for)
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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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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This was my other contender for something to post.
funny enough there might be some correlation here but in the inverse direction. the birb, being a birb, might have sat there thinking bent bars are more comfy and rad
That occurred to me actually, yeah. Same with the cat from another commenter.
When dragons try to cast deception
How heavy is that pigeon bird womg
A lot heavier than the bird on the right (or maybe that railing is stronger)
The empirical evidence for this is strong, yes.