Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Typewriters sold

correlates with

US federal prison population

r = 0.95796% · 2015-2022
Typewriters soldUS federal prison population

These two datasets have a 96% correlation over 2015-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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