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As I look at the page (which I believe changes randomly), I especially appreciate the 0.81 correlation between "letters in winning word of Scripps National Spelling Bee" and "number of people killed by venomous spiders".

It's a good one in two ways. First, it's nicely obvious that these things are unrelated. Second, these are two variables that fluctuate (together) over time -- a lot of the spurious correlations turn out to be two things that basically just increase or decrease more or less constantly over the period in question.


>I especially appreciate the ...

And you missed this > 0.99 one (a bit dated, still ...):

Apple iPhone sales

correlates with

People who died by falling down the stairs

https://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=28669


Sure, but like all the 0.99+ correlations, that one is just two lines moving in the same direction.


Now I'm having fun imagining all the various hypothetical conspiracies that are causing these correlations.




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