Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Cost per watt of solar panels

correlates with

US tanning salon industry revenue

r = 0.90290% · 2005-2022
Cost per watt of solar panelsUS tanning salon industry revenue

These two datasets have a 90% correlation over 2005-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Cost per watt of solar panelsourworldindata.org ↗
US tanning salon industry revenueibisworld.com ↗
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