Blog: A Collection of Curiosities
tags: mathematics, statistics, graphs, correlations, facts
original: https://mister-wunderkammer.tumblr.com/post/99571671385
skunkbear: These are “spurious correlations“ (created by Tyler Vigen) paired with a comic (by XKCD). Here’s the cool thing: Vigen points out that when we laugh at these correlations we are actually acting like scientists. He explains it better
tags: mathematics, statistics, graphs, correlations, facts
original: https://mister-wunderkammer.tumblr.com/post/99571671385