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Originally Posted by Eric5273
Case in point:
CNN.com: Violent crime takes first big jump since '91
Murders in the United States jumped 4.8 percent last year, and overall violent crime was up 2.5 percent for the year, marking the largest annual increase in crime in the United States since 1991, according to figures released Monday by the FBI.
Hrmmm....help me out here....what happened in 1991? Oh yes...it was the last time we were at war. 
Seems that the violent crime rates increase during periods of war, not after war. |
Wow. I also heard that the murder rate goes up when ice cream sales increase. Time to ban ice cream.
spurious correlation (′spyu̇r·ē·əs ′kä·rə′lā·shən)
(statistics) The value of the coefficient of correlation when it is computed correctly but its relationship implications are nonsensical or unreasonable.
For those who don't like guns: One of my favorites.
