{"id":8624,"date":"2025-10-15T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=8624"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:13:46","slug":"spurious-correlation-example","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=8624","title":{"rendered":"Spurious Correlation Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Example<\/p>\n<p>I choose to investigate\u00a0 the association between Amazon Stock price and the annual household spending on beef<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/imRBSzZ.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COnfounding.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8634\" src=\"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COnfounding.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COnfounding.png 587w, http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COnfounding-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COmmon-Response.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8635\" src=\"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COmmon-Response.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COmmon-Response.png 597w, http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/COmmon-Response-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to the Spurious Correlation page<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline_disabled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\/spurious\/correlation\/8991_annual-us-household-spending-on-beef_correlates-with_amazoncoms-stock-price-amzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\/spurious\/correlation\/8991_annual-us-household-spending-on-beef_correlates-with_amazoncoms-stock-price-amzn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Example I choose to investigate\u00a0 the association between Amazon Stock price and the annual household spending on beef &nbsp; Here is the link to the Spurious Correlation page https:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\/spurious\/correlation\/8991_annual-us-household-spending-on-beef_correlates-with_amazoncoms-stock-price-amzn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8624","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8637,"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8624\/revisions\/8637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danlemay.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}