Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Robot vacuums sold

correlates with

US cigarette consumption

r = -0.98098% · 2002-2015
Robot vacuums soldUS cigarette consumption

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

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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