If only correlation meant causation...
Then we could prevent suicide by spending less money on technology:
Or prevent people dying by getting tangled in their bedsheets by banning cheese:
Or stop train collisions by importing oil from elsewhere:
But of course it doesn't work like that and it's pure coincidence that these go hand in hand. Something to keep in mind before drawing conclusions about two similar trends.
For more of these: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Or prevent people dying by getting tangled in their bedsheets by banning cheese:
Or stop train collisions by importing oil from elsewhere:
But of course it doesn't work like that and it's pure coincidence that these go hand in hand. Something to keep in mind before drawing conclusions about two similar trends.
For more of these: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations







