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http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

While humorous in nature, it underscores a valuable lesson about using stats — just because the data “proves” something, doesn’t make it factual! For example, we can all agree there really is no relationship between the number of people who drowned in a pool and films with Nicholas Cage or the divorce rate in Maine and Per Capita Cheese Consumption – but the data tells us there is!