Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Smoking rate among US adults

correlates with

Facebook monthly active users

r = -0.98999% · 2009-2022
Smoking rate among US adultsFacebook monthly active users

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2009-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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