Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

English Wikipedia articles

correlates with

US counties reporting good air quality days

r = 0.98498% · 2004-2022
English Wikipedia articlesUS counties reporting good air quality days

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2004-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

English Wikipedia articlesen.wikipedia.org
US counties reporting good air quality daysepa.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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