Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Smoking rate among US adults

correlates with

Typewriters sold

r = 0.99499% · 2002-2022
Smoking rate among US adultsTypewriters sold

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2002-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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