Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Smoking rate among US adults

correlates with

Stack Overflow questions per year

r = 0.97798% · 2015-2022
Smoking rate among US adultsStack Overflow questions per year

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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