Spurious correlations at Occham’s Beard festival

Mark Dingemanse and I will be appearing the Discovery Festival in Amsterdam on Friday.  We’ll be talking about spurious correlations in language and culture as part of the Occam’s Beard symposium.

The idea is to take some real data, then throw away Occam’s razor and go after the most complicated explanation possible.

I foresee no problems.

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