spurious correlations

[tom jupille]

US spending on science, space, and technology
correlates with
Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation:

http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1597

[Peter Apps]

Brilliant, it should be compulsory viewing for every so-called science journalist who ever uses the phrase "has been linked to"

Peter

[GOM]

see also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PiratesVsTemp(en).svg

[MichaelVW]

What a cool site. I can't wait to sarcastically post these charts to the facebook walls of aquintances who think they know the exact economic implications of every government policy.