Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US cigarette consumption

correlates with

English Wikipedia articles

r = -0.99299% · 2004-2015
US cigarette consumptionEnglish Wikipedia articles

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2004-2015. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

US cigarette consumptionpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
English Wikipedia articlesen.wikipedia.org
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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