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Total student loan debt outstanding

correlates with

USPS mail carrier dog bite incidents

r = -0.91491% · 2016-2022
Total student loan debt outstandingUSPS mail carrier dog bite incidents

These two datasets have a 91% correlation over 2016-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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