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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by paulddraper on Monday June 11, 2018 @10:29PM (#17290260)
Are apples and divorces plausibly related?

Or was the professor simply drawing from an enormous number of metrics to find a spurious relationship (and report just that).

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by ajmurmann on Monday June 11, 2018 @10:44PM (#17290319)
That snake was trying to tell us something!
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by gsich on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:48AM (#17290981)
An apple is not mentioned there ;)
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by im3w1l on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:00PM (#17290395)
Well price of apples should approximately reflect general food affordability.
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by paulddraper on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:48PM (#17290576)
Hm...so economic hardship causes high apple prices and high divorce rates.
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