Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Letters mailed by the US Postal Service

correlates with

Stack Overflow questions per year

r = 0.96897% · 2015-2022
Letters mailed by the US Postal ServiceStack Overflow questions per year

These two datasets have a 97% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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