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Divorce And Margarine
The correlation between the divorce rate in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine, though compelling, is totally spurious. This is just one of the many such correlations that Tyler Vigen explores on Spurious Correlations, and in his book … Continue reading
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Tagged bad statistics, fivethirtyeight, Spurious Correlations, Statistics, Tyler Vigen
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