Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Robot vacuums sold

correlates with

FBI gun background checks (NICS)

r = 0.95996% · 2005-2022
Robot vacuums soldFBI gun background checks (NICS)

These two datasets have a 96% correlation over 2005-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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