Ah yes, that old chestnut causation and correlation. The basis of the Gateway Drug baloney. You can bend stats any way you like to get the result you’re after. This site gave us a good laugh. Be sure to click on ‘view all correlations’ at the bottom of the page to see the rest. Let’s face it. You had no idea there was a correlation between bee colonies and juvenile dagga arrests did you?

Honey producing bee colonies (US) correlates with Juvenile arrests for possession of marijuana (US)
www.tylervigen.com
Can you come up with a causal mechanism? …read more