Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Americans with at least one tattoo

correlates with

Countries with legal same-sex marriage

r = 0.90390% · 2003-2023
Americans with at least one tattooCountries with legal same-sex marriage

These two datasets have a 90% correlation over 2003-2023. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Americans with at least one tattoopewresearch.org
Countries with legal same-sex marriageourworldindata.org
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