Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Shopping mall foot traffic

correlates with

Starbucks stores worldwide

r = -0.98598% · 2010-2022
Shopping mall foot trafficStarbucks stores worldwide

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2010-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Shopping mall foot trafficplacer.ai
Starbucks stores worldwidegrabon.com
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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