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antonim @lemmy.dbzer0.com

2w ago

conclusions rule

(the pic is a joke btw - https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-map-mad-cow-disease/)

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the cows voted

- Cool comic, doesn't apply here.
  
  It's still relevant for England at least, there is a pretty close and probably casual relationship between population density and Brexit voting. Rural areas tended to vote Brexit, cities didn't.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease were my obsession a few years ago. prion diseases are a scary scary thing
- its just spicy origami
  
  …
  begrudgingly upvotes
- Fatal familial insomnia keeps me up at night.
  
  Now this is the kind of ambiguity I need more of
- What really gets me is that not even ordinary autoclaving can destroy the CJD prions. Those things are fucking terrifying. Look at sterilization recommendations for surgical instruments that have been exposed to them. The first recommendation is "destroy them." The second is, "if you simply must reuse them, boil them in lye in an autoclave for an hour." And even then we're not really sure if this is effective at sterilizing contaminated instruments; the recommendations are based more on lab studies, studies in Petri dishes basically. They're largely not based on actual studies on contaminated surgical implements.

Cowelation does not imply causation
- „Cowelation does not imply cowsation.“ Was right there! Still great! 🤣
- Moo point, udder nonsense.

Please tell me it is real...
- It's simply a correlation with population density. More rural areas tend to vote more conservative.
  https://xkcd.com/1138/
  
  Not it isn’t. If it was london would be black and you’d see black dots for Ediburgh and Glasgow
  
  This has always read to me as "when you're around a bunch of different people you realize how the same we are"
  Eidunno. Curious what others think of that. It is very true, the rural and the conservatism.
  
  People are mindless idiots.
  
  Scotland is mostly rural, is it not?
- Even if it wasn't a population density correlation, there are lots of totally unrelated correlations.
  Someone made a fun website with them!
  http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
  
  That site lost me when they started stuffing utterly unecessary AI generated art in there. Honestly, what the utter fuck.
  
  Hold on now, this one might not be so spurious...
  
  the site is really cool, im jus rlli confused bout why they put generated images.-.- like - after each element -.-,.,,.
  thank u for sharin tho!
- It is not real. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mad-cow-versus-brexit/
- nah unfortunately not from the looks of things, there's some places which definitely had mad cow disease that aren't coloured, but I wouldn't be surprised if the actual map is still very correlated

- Irrefutable proof that the nukes caused hentai.

There is also a correlation between lead paint and serial killers in America in the 60s and 70s as well as leaded gasoline.
- Lead indeed caused violent crime as it influences our nervous system and thus our behavior. It is a widely accepted hypothesis by now.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis?wprov=sfla1
- There's an additional hypothesis that a lot of the violence in the 60s and 70s was also driven by people who grew up in broken homes with unhappy marriages that couldn't be ended

mis-steaks were made

Amazing how BSE knew and respected the modern border between England and Scotland perfectly.

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