Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Daily newspaper circulation

correlates with

Swimming pool drowning deaths in the US

r = 0.91191% · 2005-2021
Daily newspaper circulationSwimming pool drowning deaths in the US

These two datasets have a 91% correlation over 2005-2021. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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