Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Gangnam Style YouTube views

correlates with

Food allergy anaphylaxis hospitalizations

r = 0.99099% · 2012-2019
Gangnam Style YouTube viewsFood allergy anaphylaxis hospitalizations

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2012-2019. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Gangnam Style YouTube viewsen.wikipedia.org
Food allergy anaphylaxis hospitalizationspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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