Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Letters mailed by the US Postal Service

correlates with

Starbucks stores worldwide

r = -0.996100% · 2010-2022
Letters mailed by the US Postal ServiceStarbucks stores worldwide

These two datasets have a 100% correlation over 2010-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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