Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Shopping mall foot traffic

correlates with

US pet industry spending

r = -0.98498% · 2016-2022
Shopping mall foot trafficUS pet industry spending

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2016-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Shopping mall foot trafficplacer.ai
US pet industry spendingamericanpetproducts.org
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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