Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Babies named Karen in the US

correlates with

IRS individual tax returns e-filed

r = -0.99499% · 2002-2022
Babies named Karen in the USIRS individual tax returns e-filed

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2002-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Babies named Karen in the USssa.gov
IRS individual tax returns e-filedirs.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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