Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Average US movie ticket price

correlates with

US per capita ice cream consumption

r = -0.92693% · 2005-2022
Average US movie ticket priceUS per capita ice cream consumption

These two datasets have a 93% correlation over 2005-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

Average US movie ticket pricenatoonline.org
US per capita ice cream consumptioners.usda.gov
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