Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

BlackBerry global smartphone market share

correlates with

US lottery ticket sales

r = -0.90290% · 2007-2016
BlackBerry global smartphone market shareUS lottery ticket sales

These two datasets have a 90% correlation over 2007-2016. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

BlackBerry global smartphone market sharestatista.com
US lottery ticket salesnaspl.org
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