Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Letters mailed by the US Postal Service

correlates with

Baby Shark YouTube views

r = -0.98599% · 2016-2022
Letters mailed by the US Postal ServiceBaby Shark YouTube views

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2016-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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