Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Pay phones remaining in the US

correlates with

ISS uncrewed resupply missions per year

r = -0.92693% · 2002-2022
Pay phones remaining in the USISS uncrewed resupply missions per year

These two datasets have a 93% correlation over 2002-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Pay phones remaining in the USfcc.gov
ISS uncrewed resupply missions per yearen.wikipedia.org
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