Comments on: Google Correlate does not imply Google Causation

By: Luke Somers

Luke Somers — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:30:11 +0000

> and for some reason “Abednego”, who is a very minor Biblical character who has no business being in the top ten correlates of Jesus at all.

But he’s so hot!

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By: gwern

gwern — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:09:08 +0000

Utilitarian ethics demand that we invade Mexico and seize all their citruses: http://i.imgur.com/zPymfXO.gif

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:17:42 +0000

> So if nothing else, this exercise has proven my suspicion that the sort of people who worry about whether Lil’ Wayne is gay are, in fact, crawling with parasites.

With this and “It is quite uncontroversial among historians that Lincoln attempted to summon the dead,” I’m quite enthralled by your abilities at obviously joking statements which are quite literally true.

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By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:20:49 +0000

Rotary cutters are mainly used to cut fabric for quilting. I’m not surprised that correlates with the Bible belt.

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By: Andrew Rettek

Andrew Rettek — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:18:49 +0000

You’ve convinced me that correlations are weaker evidence than I thought. They are useful bit of evidence, but I would want to have a reason to privilege the hypothesis first.

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