Data & ProbabilityData Mining
Cheese and Bedsheets
Search enough data and you'll find impressive nonsense
The more cheese Americans ate, the more people died tangled in their bedsheets. Should anyone worry about their next sandwich?
You'll find out
- How two unrelated lines can match
- How to find nonsense on purpose
- How scientists guard against it
Why it matters
Headlines link two things every week; knowing how chance matches happen helps you spot the empty ones.
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