You can make statistics say whatever you want.
Firefox and Witchcraft - The Connection?
More like this at http://xkcd.com/
Oh, by the way, you can download Firefox here
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Monday, 8 February 2010
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I must be getting slow. It took me a few seconds to realise this was a spoof.
I was the same when I first saw it, and I think that was what the xkcd folks were getting at - put a pair of statistics together and draw a graph and, hey presto, a correlation.
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