Greatly visualised: correlation is not always causation

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I just came across spurious-correlations. The site includes visualised correlations between random facts.

Chart showing Correlation between number of people drown in a pool and films of Nicolas Page

To name an example and you might have never guessed that: the number of people who drowned by falling into a pool correlates with the films Nicolas Cage appeared in. No joke!

These graphs are golden and I'm sure they'll come in handy when I'm in yet another causation and correlation discussion.

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