Mobile phone masts linked to mysterious spikes in births

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Mathematician finds a strong correlation between the presence of mobile phone masts and the number of children born

Story in the Guardian.

Did you actually read to the end of the article?

Or are you trying to see how many people you can catch?

As a telecommunications engineer

I'm going to send the article to my colleague who teaches stats

Oh I love More Or Less. It's a great programme

As the old adage goes, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

Really hope OP was a joke.

It's a good point raised by Matt Parker i.e the confusion between correlation and causation. Many recent pseudo-scientific/survey-based scare stories have their roots in failing to distinguish the two.