Spurious correlations...fun with statistics.

[Blumlein 88]

Spurious correlations

www.tylervigen.com

Some pretty funny correlations here.

The top one is USA Spending on Science, Space and technology has 99.79% correlation with Suicides by hanging, strangling and suffocation.

 

[DonH56]

Having worked on various space program projects I can sort of understand that...

 

[Katji]

hmmm Surprised...my RSS reader [browser add-on] copied text and graphics from the link, because it's the first part of the post.


There's an interesting subReddit, r/data, interesting data maps/graphs.