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    Die Zahl der Amerikaner, die Sushi probiert haben, korreliert zu 99,6 % mit den YouTube-Aufrufen im Gangnam-Stil (2012–2022). [OC]


    Die Zahl der Amerikaner, die Sushi probiert haben, korreliert zu 99,6 % mit den YouTube-Aufrufen im Gangnam-Stil (2012–2022). [OC]

    Von Lieutenant_Bob

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    1. Lieutenant_Bob on

      **Source data:** National Restaurant Association (sushi consumption surveys), YouTube public analytics (Gangnam Style cumulative views)

      **Tool:** I built [getspurious.com]([https://getspurious.com](https://getspurious.com)) — it calculates Pearson correlation coefficients across 269 real public datasets from USDA, CDC, FBI, YouTube, and other sources. It finds

      thousands of these beautifully meaningless correlations.

      Some other gems it found:

      – Daily newspaper circulation vs Baby Shark YouTube views: r = -0.996

      – US kombucha market size vs average NFL player salary: r = 0.996

      – Smoking rate among US adults vs Gangnam Style views: r = -0.993

      – Per capita mozzarella consumption vs deaths from falling out of bed: r = 0.996

      All real data. All completely spurious. Correlation ≠ causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

    4. Few-Interview-1996 on

      Love it. It’s a very good joke, the pinnacle of such posts on this forum.

    5. hausitron on

      What’s the y axis here? If there are no absolute numbers for comparison, then it’s literally comparing a line to a line, in which case, R^2 will always be close to 1 if you just scale the slopes to look the same.

    6. AWright5 on

      What is the value of the Y axis? And how can these two figures be compared? Gangnam Style has more views than there are Americans in total

      (not trying to slam-dunk you, I just don’t understand)

    7. _BlueFire_ on

      „should be on spurious- oh, wait, it’s from there“ hilarious website

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