While thinking about what causes people to treat money differently, behavioural economist M. Keith Chen hit on a fascinating idea. “Why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and ...

There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

Some experts believe that the tight correlation between stock prices and the Federal Reserve's growing balance sheet proves that the stock market is effectively being driven up by the Fed. In other ...

AI models often rely on “spurious correlations,” making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

One important question is whether the magnitude of PEH depends on the general BP status of the individual. Greater PEH in individuals with particularly high BP status would offer even more support for ...

Question: Is the decline in good rock music driving the decline in oil production, or is it vice versa? Economists and aesthetes will debate this for decades, I'm afraid. (With apologies to Felix ...

That’s a great headline. After all, the search engine’s algorithm placed it at the top of the list, and I clicked on it. Should pro-family politicians get concerned and divorce lawyers excited? Should ...