Trained Catholic exorcists in the US

Between 2011 and 2021, both trained Catholic exorcists and public EV charging stations grew in the United States, correlating at 0.9656 across six data points. The theological reading is that electric vehicles require spiritual protection, which would explain why they keep catching fire. The secular reading is that both numbers were small and got bigger over a decade, which is what numbers do when institutions invest in infrastructure. Whether the infrastructure in question serves the soul or the battery is irrelevant to the mathematics. Six data points cannot tell the difference and would not care if they could.

Catholic exorcist training expanded from roughly a dozen practitioners to over 100, while EV charging stations grew from a few hundred to over 140,000. Both grew from tiny bases over the same decade, driven by entirely separate institutional priorities—one religious, one environmental. With only six data points, the correlation is statistically meaningless regardless of its face value.

Growth from a small base over six years will produce a high correlation between any two expanding phenomena. The exorcist and the charging station share a growth shape, not a purpose.