Post #10349 by abromber on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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For the chart mavens here, I just found a site that provides some pretty funny (and unexpected) statistical correlations. Useless for investing, but amusing nonetheless.

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

abromber

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Thanks, it's a wondrous thing.
I'm sure that at some point I invested real money in a correlation that bad.

Jim

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Funny.....seems like these are some good examples of the theory first stated by Ronald Coase which goes something like this,

"If you torture the data long enough, it will tell you anything you want."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase

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