Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Daily newspaper circulation

correlates with

Facebook monthly active users

r = -0.996100% · 2009-2022
Daily newspaper circulationFacebook monthly active users

These two datasets have a 100% correlation over 2009-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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