Re:It'd be interesting to see... (Score 1)

the original post said "correlation" not "causal relation". it is interesting to note that if you make a graph of ice cream sales and drowning deaths over the course of a year the curves are almost identical. from this do we conclude that ice cream causes drowing? hm.

Of course not. That would be absolutely ridiculous. It's obvious from the data, however, that drowning causes ice cream.