Spurious

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Stack Overflow questions per year

correlates with

Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population

r = -0.98598% · 2015-2022
Stack Overflow questions per yearNorthern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Stack Overflow questions per yearstackoverflow.com
Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf populationdigitalcommons.unl.edu
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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