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Children ever diagnosed with ADHD

correlates with

Super Bowl TV viewership

r = 0.88188% · 2003-2022
Children ever diagnosed with ADHDSuper Bowl TV viewership

These two datasets have a 88% correlation over 2003-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Children ever diagnosed with ADHDcdc.gov ↗
Super Bowl TV viewershipen.wikipedia.org ↗
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