Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Correlation, Not Causation

This is another one for Sue's stat-heads. I grabbed it off Harvard's Social Science Statistics Blog. Somebody ought to stop the import of those lemons.

3 comments:

Sue said...

This is great. There is a similar example I used to use with my classes that showed a correlation between ice cream sales and the murder rate.

Adam W said...

This reminded me of a recent web comic.

http://xkcd.com/552/Enjoy.

fake said...

Awesome, loved it. Thanks, Adam.