{"id":303,"date":"2014-10-15T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:58:03","slug":"fabulous-correlations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous correlations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that you can predict the number of drivers killed in collisions by monitoring US crude oil imports from Norway. \u00a0Actually, shockingly, this one of those correlation vs causation things. \u00a0Check out the excellent collection kept by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\/about\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Tyler Vigen<\/span><\/a> at:<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Spurious Correlations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Spurious correlations<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<address>(thanks to Dr. David Streiner for alerting us to this page)<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that you can predict the number of drivers killed in collisions by monitoring US crude oil imports from Norway. \u00a0Actually, shockingly, this one of those correlation vs causation things. \u00a0Check out the excellent collection kept by Tyler Vigen at: Spurious correlations &nbsp; (thanks to Dr. David Streiner for alerting us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}