Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US counties reporting good air quality days

correlates with

US youth organized sports participation

r = -0.93393% · 2008-2022
US counties reporting good air quality daysUS youth organized sports participation

These two datasets have a 93% correlation over 2008-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

US counties reporting good air quality daysepa.gov
US youth organized sports participationprojectplay.org
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