this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Crappy Correlations

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Post your correlation, but it better be funny damn it.

Note: Please keep it funny, and not political . There are plenty of other places on Lemmy to post more serious type of content.

This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student.

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random

I have no relation to him, but you can visit the link above and see any random correlation that you want.

You can make your own with no graphics or programming knowledge from imgflip here

If you do actually follow the link you will see not only the graph but an ai generated explanation and an AI scholarly paper that supports these correlations.

Who knows what is going to happen when the AIs pick up these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data. Anyone who wants to post a better blank graph can do so.

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

I definitely felt less murdery after I made the switch to Firefox.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

One of the few times where correlation and causation are probably actually tied together.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, that one's definitely legit, the less Internet Exploder I had to deal with as an IT person the less murdery I felt.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

Now that’s a name I have not read in a very long time.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

It's a crossover with axis don't start at 0!

[–] bam13302@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago

Took me way too long to figure out the graph wasn't telling me the murder rate I. 2006 was ~75%

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Understandable, have a nice day.

[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

damg they killed all the Internet explorers ☠️