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Beware of cheese. You may be next.

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

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[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok but why did bedsheet entanglement deaths double between 2000 and 2009? That seems extremely odd.

[–] ArtZuron@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

My guess is that they started noticing it more than before. Sort of like how autism rates skyrocketed once it became something people actually checked.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And how do you even die from that?

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Babies and very old people. Suffocation.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm. That does not sound like a fun way to go out...

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can probably get a ton of these correlations because a lot of stuff just depends on population increase.

[–] 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@beehaw.org 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@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm getting nerd sniped by this though!