Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Near-Earth asteroids discovered per year

correlates with

Average NFL player salary

r = 0.98899% · 2005-2023
Near-Earth asteroids discovered per yearAverage NFL player salary

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2005-2023. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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