Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Babies named Alexa

correlates with

Tracked orbital debris objects

r = -0.90791% · 2010-2022
Babies named AlexaTracked orbital debris objects

These two datasets have a 91% correlation over 2010-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Babies named Alexassa.gov
Tracked orbital debris objectsorbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov
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