Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Near-Earth asteroids discovered per year

correlates with

Average US movie ticket price

r = 0.95896% · 2005-2023
Near-Earth asteroids discovered per yearAverage US movie ticket price

These two datasets have a 96% correlation over 2005-2023. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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