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How useful is a statistical correlation?

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Post by: AlanM
I just ran across this image and just HAD to share it.

Back in pre-history, when I was in high school, I read that someone had found a very high positive correlation between ice cream sales by street vendors in New York City and the daily death rate in Calcutta, India.
Obviously that meant that every time a New Yorker had a treat they killed someone on the other side of the world.
(What it actually meant was that it was summer in both locations.)

For your consideration and ...



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