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Favorite Comment: Graphite Lady says, “As a pastry chef, I take exception to the whole “correlation is not causation” comment. Each and every batch of my cupcakes is made with a teaspoon of happiness…
…and by happiness, I mean Zoloft.”
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my city has the most cupcakes
PINKIE PIE, YOU WIN!!!!!
tolerance to non-bronies, intolerance to trolls, and love and cupcakes if you are part of the herd!
Welcome all bronies
i also forgot. FIRST!
you also forgot to mention that you’re a retard
The cupcake stores need to be sorted by per capita too.
No one can say no to a cupcake. They are like little bits of happiness!
Remember kids: Correlation does not prove causation.
That’s right! It could be that the more people kill themselves, the less cupcake shops they build because of the lower population!
What about Eclair and Froyo?
Major fail. If you’re going to show suicide rates per capita, you also need to show cupcake stores per capita. Also, correlation is not causation.
I think the whole point of the graph is to mock of crappy statistics
At best you could suggest using cupcake stores per square mile, not per capita. Unless you think cupcake shops are so popular that they quicky reach customer saturation point and the queues are so long and constant that only a fraction of the population has cupcake access?
Also the correlation – causation arguement is a little redundant on a comedy site.
you’re so smart.. please do moar things.
A histogram is not the right type of graph for this dataset. With two independent variables, a scatter graph would be more suited. The tombstone/cupcake glyphs could then be used for the data points of the line.
Hmm. Colorado Springs – 6 suicides per capita i.e., each person there commits 6 suicides every year. Must be a really depressive place. And full of undead too.
WIN!
i was wondering about the “per capita” thing too. are you sure a capit isn’t, like, a thousand people or something?
As a pastry chef, I take exception to the whole “correlation is not causation” comment. Each and every batch of my cupcakes is made with a teaspoon of happiness…
…and by happiness, I mean Zoloft.
So…by Zoloft you mean happiness?
Thank you, Spook, for pointing out that suicides per capita is a very strange unit of measurement! I was just going to say that apparently someone’s Latin is kind of rusty…
I dont get this. Per capita means “per head” and there cant be more than one suicide for a person. is it for like every thousand people or what?
What are you talking about? I commit suicide every day.
it does say “RATE of suicide per capita” – but then lists it on an arbitrary scale on the side (which, speaking of scales, it is a very stretchy scale…), and therefore doesn’t say over what period of time this is a rate per capita…? very strange.
also, cupcake stores need to be in the same units as what you are comparing against.
though as causation and correlation go, there would be statistical tests that would say that there is a correlation or not that is statistically significant; i.e. that the correlation is so strong that it would be pure chance to suggest one does not at least indirectly affect the other…
and yeah, I don’t have a life.
as for the correla
I live in Colorado Springs. I never knew what I was missing. I’m gonna go kill myself now.
who made this graph?? i like!
That obviously isn’t the suicide rate per capita. Are you telling me that for every person in Colorado Springs, 30 people commit suicide? This graph fails pretty hard.
Created by an ad writer in San Fran named Melanie Simonich. She’s a big fan of cupcakes.