this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Crappy Correlations

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Post your correlation, but it better be funny damn it.

Note: Please keep it funny, and not political . There are plenty of other places on Lemmy to post more serious type of content.

This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student.

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random

I have no relation to him, but you can visit the link above and see any random correlation that you want.

You can make your own with no graphics or programming knowledge from imgflip here

If you do actually follow the link you will see not only the graph but an ai generated explanation and an AI scholarly paper that supports these correlations.

Who knows what is going to happen when the AIs pick up these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data. Anyone who wants to post a better blank graph can do so.

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[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I hate to be that guy, but these throw me off. The y axis isn't labeled, so it makes it hard to read. The top area should be the title of the graph, the y axis should be labeled by the y axis for clarity.

Right now I see a graph trying to show the terribleness of correlation: as the likelihood of crucifixion goes up, something else goes up but is not complete. Maybe it's just me, but that's my constructive criticism since I like these posts.