Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US utility patents granted

correlates with

Choking deaths on food in the US

r = 0.96196% · 2005-2021
US utility patents grantedChoking deaths on food in the US

These two datasets have a 96% correlation over 2005-2021. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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