Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Total student loan debt outstanding

correlates with

US pet industry spending

r = 0.99399% · 2016-2022
Total student loan debt outstandingUS pet industry spending

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2016-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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