Remember the correlation between Pirates and Global Warming from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Always a favorite of mine to demonstrate a meaningless correlation. And the case of Stephen Gould's age having a perfect correlation with the price of butter?
A new one: Reduced importing of lemons from Mexico are nearly perfectly coordinated with the decline in US highway fatalitie (R=.97).
From Megan McCardle and Atlantic Business contributor Derek Lowe.
This is the case, but by what plausible mechanism?

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