Snake bite emergency department visits

correlates with

Tweets sent per day (Twitter/X)

r = 0.91992% · 2008-2016

Snake bite emergency department visitsTweets sent per day (Twitter/X)

These two datasets have a 92% correlation over 2008-2016. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Snake bite emergency department visitspubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗

Tweets sent per day (Twitter/X)internetlivestats.com ↗

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