Trained Catholic exorcists in the US

As American cheese consumption has grown, the number of trained Catholic exorcists has increased, a correlation of 0.988 that adds the paranormal to the already extensive list of things that correlate with dairy. The cheese ages, the exorcist trains, and the chart connects blessed sacraments to blessed curds with the theological confidence of a coefficient that has found the body and blood in the fromage section.

Cheese consumption grew from about 31 to over 40 pounds per capita between 2005 and 2021. Exorcists grew from 12 to over 175. Both are smooth upward curves: cheese because of premiumization and pizza culture, exorcists because of Vatican expansion. Nine data points of two growing trends produce a high coefficient. The cheese makers and the exorcists are not aware of each other's work, though both involve transformation.

Nine years of cheese and exorcists is the third entry in the exorcist correlation trilogy (after hot sauce and energy bars), completing a portrait of a spiritual practice that correlates with every growing consumer trend in America. The cheese melts, the demon flees, and the chart draws a line between the sacred and the savory with the mathematical purity of a coefficient that has been blessed by coincidence.