Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

English Wikipedia articles

correlates with

IRS individual tax returns e-filed

r = 0.998100% · 2004-2022
English Wikipedia articlesIRS individual tax returns e-filed

These two datasets have a 100% correlation over 2004-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

English Wikipedia articlesen.wikipedia.org
IRS individual tax returns e-filedirs.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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