Crazy irrelevant correlations #shorts

Originally uploaded: 08/12/2021
Beware Nicolas Cage movies!

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2000s, there was a 95% correlation between how much cheese we all ate and the number of people who died getting tangled in their sheets while sleeping. Totally true. And there was a 99% correlation between iPhone sales and the number of people who fell down stairs to their death.

It's easy to think that when two things are so correlated, they're related. Brains look for patterns. Clouds correlate with rain, but that connection isn't always real. Two things can correlate and have nothing to do with each other. And sometimes when that happens, it's hilarious. Bizarre anyway.

A few years ago, law student Tyler Vigen collected 30,000 examples calling them Spurious Correlations. People drowning in pools correlated with the number of movies Nic Cage was in. Margarine consumption correlated with the divorce rate in Maine. There was an 80% correlation between how long the winning word at the National Spelling Bee was and how many people died from spider bites.

This one hits close to home. The amount of sunlight we get in Minnesota correlates to the number of people who are killed boarding a bus, but not because of a collision.

I just want to warn everyone, it's really nice here in Minnesota today. Sunny, 82. So watch out on public transit. All right. If you like knowing useless stuff, just because it's fun, come along. I got more.

[TAPa]

When you look for enough things, you'll find some whether they're real or not :)

[katiethomas]

Where do you get these? I need them EVERYDAY! LMAO