Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Active geocaches worldwide

correlates with

Food allergy anaphylaxis hospitalizations

r = 0.98999% · 2005-2019
Active geocaches worldwideFood allergy anaphylaxis hospitalizations

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2005-2019. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Active geocaches worldwidenewsroom.geocaching.com
Food allergy anaphylaxis hospitalizationspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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