Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Letters mailed by the US Postal Service

correlates with

Active geocaches worldwide

r = -0.96697% · 2005-2022
Letters mailed by the US Postal ServiceActive geocaches worldwide

These two datasets have a 97% correlation over 2005-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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