{"id":6242,"date":"2016-07-12T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2016-07-12T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:11:38","slug":"spurious-correlations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6242","title":{"rendered":"Spurious Correlations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spurious.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6247\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spurious-300x140.png\" alt=\"spurious\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spurious-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spurious-1024x476.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spurious.png 1870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tylervigen.com\/spurious-correlations\">Spurious Correlations<\/a>\u00a0is a great web site that shows correlations that are spurious like this one between revenue generated by arcades and computer science doctorates. The gathered correlations show how correlation is not causation.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dan for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurious Correlations\u00a0is a great web site that shows correlations that are spurious like this one between revenue generated by arcades and computer science doctorates. The gathered correlations show how correlation is not causation. Thanks to Dan for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6250,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}