Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Economist Democracy Index world average

correlates with

Alibaba Singles Day sales

r = -0.88288% · 2010-2021
Economist Democracy Index world averageAlibaba Singles Day sales

These two datasets have a 88% correlation over 2010-2021. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Economist Democracy Index world averageen.wikipedia.org
Alibaba Singles Day salesen.wikipedia.org
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