An important wake up call for econometricians, who just think they can just correlate things in a complex world and come up with sound economics.
The number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool correlates with
the number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in.
The age of Miss America correlates with murders by steam, hot vapours and hot objects.
More important and fun examples: here.
(Via Greg Mankiw)
Thank you!
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