People can come up with some crazy correlations(Links to an external site.)Spurious Correlations (tylervigen.com)suchas the number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets due to how much cheese they have consumed. What are some correlations you have encountered in your life that you found crazy?

Then, think about two variables where y depends on x. What would be a correlation that you could see being meaningful in your field of study?