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Spurious Correlations
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Thousands of real but meaningless data matches
Thousands of real data sets that happen to rise and fall together, like butter consumption and the number of epidemiologists in Colorado, charted side by side to show why correlation isn't causation. A favorite of statistics teachers; it's a joke, so don't cite it.
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