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The distance between the moon and Earth correlates with...
Variable | Correlation | Years | Has img? |
Votes for Libertarian Senators in Georgia | r=0.84 | 10yrs | No |
Votes for Republican Senators in Pennsylvania | r=0.82 | 15yrs | No |
Votes for Democratic Senators in New Jersey | r=0.8 | 16yrs | No |
Total likes of CGP Grey YouTube videos | r=0.72 | 13yrs | No |
The number of hotel desk clerks in Alaska | r=0.61 | 20yrs | No |
Rain in Toronto | r=0.6 | 18yrs | No |
Global annual sales of the Xbox 360 | r=0.48 | 10yrs | No |
Number of competing nations in the Summer Olympics | r=0.48 | 46yrs | No |
Mega millions lottery numbers | r=0.48 | 21yrs | No |
Number of edits to the Wikipedia article for Taylor Swift | r=0.48 | 17yrs | No |
Google searches for 'helicopter accident' | r=0.47 | 20yrs | No |
Patents granted to Kia | r=-0.46 | 11yrs | No |
Popularity of the 'Maps Without New Zealand' meme | r=-0.46 | 18yrs | No |
Master's degrees awarded in Communications technologies | r=-0.47 | 10yrs | No |
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You caught me! While it would be intuitive to sort only by "correlation," I have a big, weird database. If I sort only by correlation, often all the top results are from some one or two very large datasets (like the weather or labor statistics), and it overwhelms the page.
I can't show you *all* the correlations, because my database would get too large and this page would take a very long time to load. Instead I opt to show you a subset, and I sort them by a magic system score. It starts with the correlation, but penalizes variables that repeat from the same dataset. (It also gives a bonus to variables I happen to find interesting.)