Next time you or someone you love confuses the concepts of causation vs. correlation when relating events to each other, point them to this little illustration.

It’s a news clipping sent to me some time after my 1989 Shad Valley days, by a friend who helped me found the short-lived Canadian Carrot Club.

Statistically speaking – Garry Fairbairn
AgriMarketing magazine recently quoted this ad, produced by the (U.S.) National Institute of Statistical and Competitive Analysis:
Carrots lead to death, war, crime and disease!
FACT – More than 99% of all sick Americans have eaten carrots.
FACT – 99% of all who die from cancer have eaten carrots.
FACT – Most victims of car and plane crashes have eaten carrots.
FACT – Juvenile delinquents come from homes where carrots are eaten.
FACT – 100% of those born in 1839 and ate carrots are now dead.