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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
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Hmm... Can't get tangled in bedsheets if we make beds illegal and make everyone sleep in coffins like a vampire instead. Saves a fortune on blackout curtains, too... and in the end, you can be buried in your bed... 🤔🤔🤔
@HootyTheNightOwl that would help in so many ways indeed, but that's a fixing a different correlation.
@NerdyPotato Sounds perfectly logical to me... if there's no bedsheets - then people can eat all the cheese they want.