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14 Post author: Alicorn 25 December 2011 02:26AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 25 December 2011 03:05:44PM 0 points [-]

Those lines hardly look correlated, let alone casually related.

They don't look that bad compared to the sorts of correlations one gets in messy data. The Facebook-Greek Debt one looks like something I wouldn't be surprised to see for a genuine correlation with messy, real world data.