Visit one of the following websites:
http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations (Links to an external site. )Links to an external site.
http:/Aylervigen.com/discover (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Both websites are spurious correlation generators; some of these are quite funny (i.e., people who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat and
marriage rates in Kentucky (r = 0.95); anything involving Nicholas Cage). Pick out two correlations (if you use http://tylervigen.com/discover (Links to
an external site.)Links to an extemal site., you can generate your own two correlations). Be sure to write down the variables in each of your
correlations.
After you’ve pick your two correlations, answer the following questions:
Why are these two variables related?
Why is the relationship spurious?
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