this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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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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[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My gf picked an orange off a tree in italy and we ate it. A week later I installed linux as my main os.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm not saying I don't believe you but you didn't tell us which Linux.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had no idea RMS was on Lemmy. Borrow any good Internet connections lately?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I get that it's kinda ~~funny~~ quirky, but honestly, free software (and also other forms of open source software) wouldn't exist in the form they do today without his contributions to GNU and the GPL.

I'm not going to make fun of someone for staying true to their principles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

His contributions are immeasurable and worthy of legend. He is also a very strange bird and that can't be swept aside.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Strange is right! I once attended a seminar he gave. He stopped in the middle, and refused to proceed, until he was provided with Diet Coke. Truly strange.

[–] m4xie 9 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Definitely not Arch, then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I mean their name is endeavour so it's mostly Arch I think

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Whichever one sounds funniest in a cartoon Italian accent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately, I don't think Hannah Montana Linux is updated anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I hope she finds love on her Netflix show

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

how do we know that autism doesn't cause organic food sales?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would mean an autistic person would pay 50k usd for organic food per year on average

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

137 USD per day on food‽ Organic food is not the same as overpriced "organic" lifestyle food.

[–] Nemean_lion 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Actually, by that graph, I think autism may cause organic food.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

No wait, hear them out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Now, do gluten!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

if you scroll the data left, before the invention of pesticides, do the lines suddenly spike up???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Hilarious, but I wonder what it would look like correlated with "better access to information."

Seems like better access to information could drive both food decisions and likeliness to seek medical diagnosis.

Edit: This one chart could be driving all good and bad decisions. Now I want to see a reverse correlationb of this chat with likeliness to watch "Avatar: The Last Air Bender (The Movie)"...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Ate an organic carrot once. Now I moderate an autism sub. Organic vegetables, not even once.

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

Such a classic.