Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US life expectancy at birth

correlates with

Amtrak ridership

r = 0.99399% · 2015-2022
US life expectancy at birthAmtrak ridership

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

US life expectancy at birthdata.worldbank.org
Amtrak ridershipmedia.amtrak.com
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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