SilverSurfer -- ah yes, the great David Stockman: The Education of David Stockman "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers." —David Stockman December 1981 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/12/the-education-of-david-stockman/305760/ [ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/12/the-education-of-david-stockman/305760/?single_page=true ] [with comments] -- US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/us-spending-on-science-space-and-technology_suicides-by-hanging-strangulation-and-suffocation.png Correlation: 0.992082 http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1597 * Pedestrians killed in collision with railway train correlates with Precipitation in Howard County, MO www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/pedestrians-killed-in-collision-with-railway-train_precipitation-in-howard-county-mo.png Correlation: 0.92783 http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=699 * spurious correlations http://tylervigen.com/