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Subject: Re: OT: consuming dark chocolate linked to reduced risk of type 2
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On 12/10/2024 7:43 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
> On 10/12/2024 14:16, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> PS
>> the reason I put a question mark in the subject line is that I really hope
>> those guys are not confusing cause and effect.
>> There was this German prof who showed his students that in the same village 
>> that had the most storks there were also the most child births.
>> So, warned his students that statistics is dangerous and that that does not 
>> prove storks bring kids.
>> I could imagine people with some sort of leaning towards diabetes having less 
>> desire for chocolate?
>> It all depends.
> 
> My favourite in that line of correlation vs causation is length of name vs 
> faintness for asteroids.

<https://www.datasciencecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2808309778.png>

<http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/image/4241_popularity-of-the-first-name-sarah_correlates-with_remaining-forest-cover-in-the-brazilian-amazon.png>

<http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/image/2740_masters-degrees-awarded-in-military-technologies_correlates-with_wind-power-generated-in-kazakhstan.png>

<http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/image/3738_solar-power-generated-in-belize_correlates-with_the-number-of-fire-inspectors-in-florida.png>

> Early ones got Greek and Roman Gods names Iris, Juno, Ceres, Vesta etc.
> 
> More recently they are numbered and then named for famous(ish) people:
> 
> 2675 Tolkien  (unusually short)
> 
> 4015 Wilson–Harrington (unusually long for a low numbered one)
> 
> 50719 Elizabethgriffin
> 
> Increasingly they just have discovery numbers and a set of orbital elements 
> saved just in case someone wants to observe them again.
> 
> Finding Earth orbit crossing ones has become something of a growth industry 
> lately since they could pose an existential threat to us.
>