Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Smoking rate among US adults

correlates with

English Wikipedia articles

r = -0.98498% · 2004-2022
Smoking rate among US adultsEnglish Wikipedia articles

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2004-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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