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submitted 11 months ago by gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk to c/ask@piefed.social
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[-] Praxinoscope@lemmy.zip 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Monthly deaths from drowning correlate to ice cream sales.

Ice cream doesn't cause drowning, but both numbers go up at the same time of year (summer)

[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That’s brilliant!

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 11 months ago
[-] jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip 19 points 11 months ago
[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

“Butter consumption correlates with the number of epidemiologists in Colorado”

Wtf Colorado!

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.social 15 points 11 months ago
[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 11 points 11 months ago

We must increase the pirate population dramatically!

[-] TaterTot@piefed.social 9 points 11 months ago

Every single person who confuses correlation with causation ends up dying.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

We don't know that for sure. There several bililon people who have not died yet.

[-] TaterTot@piefed.social 6 points 11 months ago

Sounds like none of them have confused the two then... yet!

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

100% of people who drink water will die?

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ever time you see a house on fire, you're almost guaranteed to see firemen.

So clearly firemen must be the leading cause of house fires.

[-] deadbeef79000 2 points 11 months ago

Do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to you?

Does your period start at the same phase of the Moon each time?

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