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by nakedrobot2 259 days ago
Holy crap there is a boat load of spurious correlation here.

Obligatory link https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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Section 2 and 3 of the study[1] go deep into their analysis methods, you’ll need something a bit more solid than “I’ve read about correlation vs causation once” to counter it.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266635462...