Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
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Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
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Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
#2There's no way on earth they can actually know the movie-viewing history of those who recently died. So the data must simply be fabricated. It undermines the point they're trying to make. They should have used a real example.
Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
#3There's no way on earth they can actually know the movie-viewing history of those who recently died. So the data must simply be fabricated. It undermines the point they're trying to make. They should have used a real example.
Its so so clearly a joke. Come on man.
Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
#4There's no way on earth they can actually know the movie-viewing history of those who recently died. So the data must simply be fabricated. It undermines the point they're trying to make. They should have used a real example.
Its so so clearly a joke. Come on man.
Or an advertisement for the new movie.
Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
#5There's no way on earth they can actually know the movie-viewing history of those who recently died. So the data must simply be fabricated. It undermines the point they're trying to make. They should have used a real example.
Its so so clearly a joke. Come on man.
What's the joke? It seems to me they're trying to make a point about the study that appears lower on the page, the one claiming that vaccinated people are dying at a higher rate than unvaccinated.
Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
#6Another Spurious Correlations [0]. The message will always bear repeating.
Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
#7There's no way on earth they can actually know the movie-viewing history of those who recently died. So the data must simply be fabricated. It undermines the point they're trying to make. They should have used a real example.
Its so so clearly a joke. Come on man.
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It’s hard to tell what’s a joke anymore.
Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
#8The introduction to the article needs more context. I don’t understand why it exists, who cares about it and who would believe that.
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#10Another Spurious Correlations [0]. The message will always bear repeating. [0] https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
No, most of those are "actually spurious" in the sense of the two time series having nothing to do with each other. A lot of them are pretty short series as well, so it's easy for them to be correlated.
What we are looking at is Simpson's Paradox, where the true causal relationship is obscured by information that isn't obvious from the plot.
Now before you correlation != causation, there is actually a causation here that you can access with statistics.