Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US youth organized sports participation

correlates with

Turkey press freedom ranking

r = -0.89990% · 2008-2022
US youth organized sports participationTurkey press freedom ranking

These two datasets have a 90% correlation over 2008-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

US youth organized sports participationprojectplay.org
Turkey press freedom rankingen.wikipedia.org
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