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Crappy Correlations

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Post your correlation, but it better be funny damn it.

Note: Please keep it funny, and not political . There are plenty of other places on Lemmy to post more serious type of content.

This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student.

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random

I have no relation to him, but you can visit the link above and see any random correlation that you want.

You can make your own with no graphics or programming knowledge from imgflip here

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 pick up these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data. Anyone who wants to post a better blank graph can do so.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5918388

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The original was posted on /r/dataisbeautiful by /u/slimetakes on 2025-05-26 00:08:42+00:00.

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now layer on abortion data. Then layer on prison population growth.

I keep seeing one or two but never all of them at once.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The hidden factor of cheese is definitely missing from this.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you implicate cheese as harmful to society I will block you.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

A block of cheese, if you will

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Cheese is Holy. We will not infringe.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

WTF are you trying to tell me with the X-axis labels?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I believe the second label corresponds just to the violent crime rate. The implied correlation is that leaded gasoline contributes to lead in the blood, which leads to violent crimes 20 years later. i.e. they shifted the line for violent crime to make it overlap instead of being delayed.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying to tell you that The vampire coalition is blameless in this matter, if only people would believe us. But they don't. So we are forced to eat them.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apologies for all the lead in the blood there for a while

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It only made me stronger

[–] Hlodwig@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whats funny is that lead poisoning during pregnancy can affect fetus. Meaning that the 20year shift between the two x axis could be explained by poisoned deranged kiddos growing into age to commit crime...

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

This was the prelude to the formic war.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Seems like there are a lot of years missing. I am sure the correlation would look the same over 30 more years... Right? Right?!

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

absolutely 100% you can trust it with your life.