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- Spurious Correlations - tylervigen. com
Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables
- Discover a correlation - Tyler Vigen
Discover a correlation You can discover new spurious correlations using my database Select a category or scroll to the bottom to search Alternatively, view a random correlation You can also upload your own data to see what it correlates with
- Tyler Vigen. com
What it is: Random correlations dredged up from silly data, turned into linear line charts Now with AI-generated explanations of the causal connection and silly images to accompany the charts!
- View all correlations - Tyler Vigen
← Spurious Correlations home · Search by variable category · Research papers Viewing all spurious correlations Page
- Spurious Correlations - Tyler Vigen
Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables
- Per capita consumption of margarine correlates with The divorce rate in . . .
Instead of starting with a hypothesis and testing it, I instead abused the data to see what correlations shake out It’s a dangerous way to go about analysis, because any sufficiently large dataset will yield strong correlations completely at random
- About Spurious Correlations - Tyler Vigen
I added 25,000 new variables, improved and expanded the discover feature, and added a sprinkle of GenAI (including spurious scholar) Thank you to all the teachers, students, and other nerds who provided input on this version! I intend to write a bit more about how I built this
- Spurious Scholar - Tyler Vigen
Spurious research papers based on real correlations with p < 0 05, generated by a large language model
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