Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Typewriters sold

correlates with

US national debt

r = -0.97497% · 2002-2022
Typewriters soldUS national debt

These two datasets have a 97% correlation over 2002-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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