Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Daily newspaper circulation

correlates with

Despacito YouTube views

r = -0.97798% · 2017-2022
Daily newspaper circulationDespacito YouTube views

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2017-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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