visit the website http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations….

visit the website Tyler Vigen has calculated real correlations from existing data that obviously are not causally related. the task is to come up with one third variable that might plausibly explain the correlation. Your answer can be silly or serious, but make it at least somewhat plausible. Please include the reported correlation. For example: “The high positive correlation between Maine’s divorce rate and per capita consumption of margarine (r=.99) may be due to money. If people have less money, they might be more likely to get divorced (due to financial stresses) and more likely to buy margarine (due to lower prices). So declining divorce and margarine consumption rates have the same root cause: increasing levels of family income.”

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