Thomas the take engines
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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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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I love it. The more colorful correlations serve to chip away at the robust correlation is causation illusion.
My favorite that I use in my stats class is Nic Cage movies and drowning. Its the same as Ice Cream Sales and Drowning, but I get to use images of Nic Cage.
Nice!
According to my graphs they don't seem to correlate at all.
^ How lemmy screenshots stock prices to boost a given statement.
Scientists are just people trying to prove shit anyway.
Amazing findings. How can we fund you more?
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.
This is the kind of overfitting our machine-learning overlords will find as we operate the data centers with more fossil fuels. Amazing! /s
His career peaked in the 1980s, and people stopped naming their kids after him.