Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Letters mailed by the US Postal Service

correlates with

Global emails sent per day

r = -0.96396% · 2015-2022
Letters mailed by the US Postal ServiceGlobal emails sent per day

These two datasets have a 96% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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