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this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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Crappy Correlations
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Post your correlation, but it better be funny damn it.
Note: Please keep it funny, and not political . There are plenty of other places on Lemmy to post more serious type of content.
This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student.
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random
I have no relation to him, but you can visit the link above and see any random correlation that you want.
You can make your own with no graphics or programming knowledge from imgflip here
If you do actually follow the link you will see not only the graph but an ai generated explanation and an AI scholarly paper that supports these correlations.
Who knows what is going to happen when the AIs pick up these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data. Anyone who wants to post a better blank graph can do so.
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a good definition for what a crappy correlation is is just the spurious correlations from the spurious correlations website that's in the main link , and the whole point of them is that they're funny. And by crappy we mean something that is mathematically correlated that it makes absolutely no sense. That's why it's funny, and that's what makes it funny. If you do not make the moderator laugh, you will be executed. There's no probation, we just go straight to execution. Oh I'm sorry, I meant crucifixion. Let's do crucifixion.