Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

FOIA requests received by federal agencies

correlates with

UK average pint of lager price

r = 0.91291% · 2015-2024
FOIA requests received by federal agenciesUK average pint of lager price

These two datasets have a 91% correlation over 2015-2024. 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
UK average pint of lager priceons.gov.uk
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