“Is there any link between football and economic success?,” asks Goldman Sachs in a fairly comprehensive note released this morning on the World Cup, which begins in just over two weeks in Brazil. ”Almost certainly not. However, we didn’t let this mere fact stop us from trawling the data for some spurious correlations between the two.”
“Is there any link between football and economic success?,” asks Goldman Sachs $GS in a fairly comprehensive note released this morning on the World Cup, which begins in just over two weeks in Brazil. ”Almost certainly not. However, we didn’t let this mere fact stop us from trawling the data for some spurious correlations between the two.”
We all know that correlation doesn’t equal causation but here are some of the more interesting (and in many cases tenuous) examples unearthed by Goldman Sachs’s analysis.
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