Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

FOIA requests received by federal agencies

correlates with

Tattoo parlors in the US

r = 0.89389% · 2015-2023
FOIA requests received by federal agenciesTattoo parlors in the US

These two datasets have a 89% correlation over 2015-2023. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

FOIA requests received by federal agenciesfoia.gov
Tattoo parlors in the USibisworld.com
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