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AI explanation As Frozen yogurt consumption decreased, people's brains were no longer chilled to the point of committing heinous acts, leading to a decrease in violent crime rates. The lack of fro-yo-induced inner peace and tranquility meant that individuals were too busy mourning the absence of delicious, creamy goodness to engage in acts of aggression. This sparked a nationwide movement of peaceful protests, where instead of fighting, people hugged it out while licking imaginary cones of their favorite fro-yo flavors. It turns out, the real spooning happened as a form of therapy, and the only things getting whipped were toppings on a swirl of non-violence. In the end, the only thing that was iced out was an entire criminal element, as society collectively realized that the true spoonful of justice was the one they didn’t take from the fro-yo shop. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/research-papers/5905_chilling-crime-the-frozen-yogurt-factor-in-violent-crime-rates.pdf

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[-] jeff@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

It's interesting that it flipped around 2010. If you zoomed into just the last 15 years it would look negatively correlated.

[-] darthoub@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

There’s a whole site dedicated to spurious correlations

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

AI trying to actually explain the causation is so funny to me

[-] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

That's pretty funny because the plausibility is not exactly there but the AI is doing a pretty good job of explaining it in its weird way

[-] RedStrider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

But it comes with a free frogurt!

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That's good!

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This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student. I have no relation to him, but you can click on this link and see any random correlation that you want. I'm going to post some of these for Lemmy people for awhile, until I get bored. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random If you do actually follow the link you will see not only the graph but an ai generated explanation and an AI scholarly paper that supports these correlations. who knows what is going to happen when the AIs pickup these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data.

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