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Bahtatboy

May 26th 2014 12:08 pm

Now I'm scared of cheese...

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In the statistics field, it is said that correlation does not imply causation - just because two variables are related, it does not mean that one causes the other. To prove this, a new website - Spurious Correlations - is posting daily graphs showing the surprising relationships between pairs of random statistics.

Some are extremely unusual - Nicolas Cage films v female Harvard Law Review editors - while others are altogether unexpected, such as the inverse relation between the divorce rate and number of lawyers in Virginia.

Per capita consumption of cheese v number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets:

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...margarine.html

shiva

May 26th 2014 12:18 pm

Re: Now I'm scared of cheese...

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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 11276137)

[I]Per capita consumption of cheese v number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets

how the **** is that even possible?

Bahtatboy

May 26th 2014 12:22 pm

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Originally Posted by shiva (Post 11276156)

how the **** is that even possible?

Yeah, I know. Americans don't even like cheese.

weasel decentral

May 26th 2014 12:30 pm

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Originally Posted by shiva (Post 11276156)

how the **** is that even possible?

All things are possible with the addition of alcohol, perhaps it all starts with a cheese (and wine) reception or party.

martinbkk

May 26th 2014 4:16 pm

Re: Now I'm scared of cheese...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nbmjkImHQ

martinbkk

May 26th 2014 4:17 pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nbmjkImHQ

Charismatic

May 31st 2014 11:07 am

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Originally Posted by shiva (Post 11276156)

how the **** is that even possible?

How many people die zipping themselves into travel bags each year?

Beaverstate

May 31st 2014 11:12 am

Re: Now I'm scared of cheese...

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Originally Posted by weasel decentral (Post 11276177)

All things are possible with the addition of alcohol, perhaps it all starts with a cheese (and wine) reception or party.

OK now it makes sense.

Beaverstate

Jun 1st 2014 9:29 am

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Originally Posted by Norm_uk (Post 11284043)

Cheese burgers and pizza and cheese dogs excluded.

And the cheeseheads who make up 50% of the California legislature :rofl:

N.

Unfortunately most of your examples don't contain real cheese but 'cheese food'

Beaverstate

Jun 1st 2014 10:13 am

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Originally Posted by Norm_uk (Post 11284116)

:confused:

What do you define as real cheese then?

N.

Too much info http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7806sci2.html

Picture cheese from a can under pressure.

scot47

Jun 1st 2014 6:38 pm

Re: Now I'm scared of cheese...

If there is a correlation between eating Cadbury's chocolate and promiscuity, how does cheese factor into the equation ?

Bahtatboy

Jun 1st 2014 10:12 pm

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Originally Posted by scot47 (Post 11284571)

If there is a correlation between eating Cadbury's chocolate and promiscuity, how does cheese factor into the equation ?

Cheese factors in every equation, and I don't care how ****ing runny the Camembert is.

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