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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The name Thomas correlates with motor vehicle thefts in Maine (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

According to my graphs they don't seem to correlate at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

They correlate about as well as respiration rate and Sp02. I know that's a silly comparison, but hopefully, we're all learning a little more about statistics in the context of epistemology.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Scientists are just people trying to prove shit anyway.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

^ How lemmy screenshots stock prices to boost a given statement.