Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Letters mailed by the US Postal Service

correlates with

Streaming service subscriptions

r = -0.98098% · 2007-2022
Letters mailed by the US Postal ServiceStreaming service subscriptions

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2007-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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