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Review : Superman
Today, a quick snap review of James Gunn's venture into the normally angst-ridden world that is the DC comic universe. First some backgr...
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Where Americans think Ukraine is These are the guesses of 2066 Americans as to where Ukraine is. Only 1 in 6 were correct. Presumably the...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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Hmmm. [The comments below include a prime example of someone claiming they're interested in truth but just want higher standard, where...
Nice. ;-)
ReplyDeleteIE makes you want to go postal...
ReplyDeleteLOL, nice correlation!
ReplyDeleteThe fun thing is it's not clear which is the independent variable. IE may drive people to murder, yes, but try interpreting it the other way around...
ReplyDeleteLikely both are correlated to reductions in lead.
ReplyDeleteActually, the lead-crime hypothesis might tie in well to the one about smacking bans...
ReplyDeleteplus.google.com - “What Happens When A Country Bans Spanking?”
Well, since Microsoft has been removing itself from the market and introduced edge in place of explorer, as well as Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and a couple others picked up the rest there is no direct relationship to murder rates in any way. Just a pure coincidence that there appears to be a 1:1 correlation.
ReplyDelete... at this stage, I'm taking it for granted that no-one actually thinks there's a meaningful association because there's a correlation. Everyone's seen this, right ?
ReplyDeletetylervigen.com - 15 Insane Things That Correlate With Each Other
Anyway, what's obviously happening is that murderers only go after people who use IE. Since they've successfully killed off most users, they don't need to kill so many people any more.