Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US cigarette consumption

correlates with

Pay phones remaining in the US

r = 0.98398% · 2002-2015
US cigarette consumptionPay phones remaining in the US

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2002-2015. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

US cigarette consumptionpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pay phones remaining in the USfcc.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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