Now I'm scared of cheese...
May 26th 2014, 12:08 pm
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Now I'm scared of cheese...
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:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...margarine.html
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:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...margarine.html
May 26th 2014, 12:22 pm
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May 31st 2014, 11:07 am
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Re: Now I'm scared of cheese...
May 31st 2014, 11:12 am
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Jun 1st 2014, 9:29 am
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Jun 1st 2014, 10:13 am
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Re: Now I'm scared of cheese...
Too much info http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7806sci2.html
Picture cheese from a can under pressure.
Picture cheese from a can under pressure.
Jun 1st 2014, 6:38 pm
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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 ?
Jun 1st 2014, 10:12 pm
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