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Chart: Art prevents tripping deaths in women (?!)

A look at some dubiously correlating data sets from the Spurious Correlations blog...
Tyler Vigen/Spurious Correlations
Tyler Vigen/Spurious Correlations

Spurious Correlations, is an updating collection of fun, weird, sometimes disturbing charts of data that happen to correlate even if they don't necessarily have anything to do with each other. The blog's creator, Tyler Vigen, a J.D. student at Harvard Law School, says his goal is not to foster distrust for correlative data, it's hard not to see the collection as an object lesson in jumping to conclusions.

More favorites after the jump...

MILK SAVES MARRIAGES!

Tyler Vigen/Spurious Correlations
Tyler Vigen/Spurious Correlations

EATING CHEESE MAKES PEOPLE WANT TO GOLF!

Tyler Vigen/Spurious Correlations
Tyler Vigen/Spurious Correlations

(H/T The Morning News)

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