Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Baby Shark YouTube views

correlates with

Near-Earth asteroids discovered per year

r = 0.99099% · 2016-2023
Baby Shark YouTube viewsNear-Earth asteroids discovered per year

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2016-2023. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Baby Shark YouTube viewsen.wikipedia.org
Near-Earth asteroids discovered per yearcneos.jpl.nasa.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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