Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Smoking rate among US adults

correlates with

US pet industry spending

r = -0.98098% · 2016-2022
Smoking rate among US adultsUS 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.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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