Link: Spurious Correlations

Spurious Correlations contains a ton of charts showing correlations and inverse correlations of… well, everything, although there are some repeating themes (food consumption, marriage rates, Nicolas Cage movies, deaths by various sources). If you’ve longed for a way to demonstrate to someone the difference between correlation and causation, some of these charts ought to do it. Or perhaps someone would like to try increasing the number of honey producing bee colonies by increasing the number of legal executions carried out…