Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Restaurant spending per capita

correlates with

Phishing attacks reported annually (worldwide)

r = 0.90390% · 2005-2022
Restaurant spending per capitaPhishing attacks reported annually (worldwide)

These two datasets have a 90% correlation over 2005-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Restaurant spending per capitaers.usda.gov
Phishing attacks reported annually (worldwide)apwg.org
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