FBI gun background checks (NICS)

correlates with

Kim Kardashian Instagram followers

r = 0.91792% · 2014-2021

FBI gun background checks (NICS)Kim Kardashian Instagram followers

These two datasets have a 92% correlation over 2014-2021. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

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