It has been discovered that there is almost a perfect correlation (.992558) of per capita consumption of margarine in the United States with the divorce rate in Maine.
And did you know that the correlation between the number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets with revenue generated by American skiing facilities is .969?
Pretty spooky.
And let us not even try to consider the strange connection between swimming-pool drowning deaths and Nicolas Cage movies.
Kudos to Tyler Vigen for the noble effort to show that correlation does not equal causation.
For those who love conspiracy theories, and especially debunking them, TylerVigen.com is here.
Honey Badger has to think about it.
Scary because some hedge fund buy/sell models are based on obviously absurd correlations
Not like these correlations.