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Beware of cheese. You may be next.

More at https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yepp, that's exactly the point of the site linked in the post. I could even say: yes, that's the joke.

[–] sandriver 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's per capita cheese consumption though, so shouldn't it be independent to population increase?

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they are just random statistics which are randomly correlating. it's funny. that's it. don't imagine too much into it.

[–] sandriver 2 points 1 year ago

I'm getting nerd sniped by this though!