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Should all Marriages in New York be banned to save lives?

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:02 am
by Doc
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Hundreds of lives could be saved every year!!
Marriage rate in New York Marriages per 1000 people (US Census)
Murders by blunt object Deaths (US) (CDC)
Correlation: 0.879854

Re: Should all Marriages in New York be banned to save lives

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:09 am
by Nonc Hilaire
Doc wrote:Image

Hundreds of lives could be saved every year!!
Marriage rate in New York Marriages per 1000 people (US Census)
Murders by blunt object Deaths (US) (CDC)
Correlation: 0.879854
Were the murders done by one live-in partner to the other? The statistics seem rather blunt themselves, with both stats staying fairly stable with a slight downtrend.

Re: Should all Marriages in New York be banned to save lives

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:13 am
by noddy

Re: Should all Marriages in New York be banned to save lives

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:21 pm
by Doc
noddy wrote:methinks its a fun bit of http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Do you think? :D