Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Restaurant spending per capita

correlates with

BlackBerry global smartphone market share

r = -0.92292% · 2007-2016
Restaurant spending per capitaBlackBerry global smartphone market share

These two datasets have a 92% correlation over 2007-2016. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Restaurant spending per capitaers.usda.gov
BlackBerry global smartphone market sharestatista.com
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