Spurious Correlations

Spurious Correlations is a website created by Tyler Vigen which features graphs and data of thousands of spurious correlations, and lets users create their own spurious correlations.

For example, who knew who well the number of people who drown after falling out of fishing boats is so well correlated with the marriage rate in Kentucky:

 

Spurious correlation - people who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat correlated with the marriage rate in Kentucky

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