EVs Attract the Afterlife
Americans Who Report Seeing a Ghost vs Electric Vehicle Sales
Ghost sightings and electric car sales climbed in perfect lockstep. Turns out specters love a silent powertrain. Teslas are literally haunted.
“The lack of engine noise creates a spectral acoustic vacuum. A Model Y is basically a moving ouija board.”
— Prof. Ampere Phantom, Paranormal Automotive Engineer
A correlation, not a conclusion
What you are looking at is the trajectory of Americans Who Report Seeing a Ghost set against Electric Vehicle Sales. Over the years where both series exist, they happen to move in lockstep tightly enough to produce r ≈ 74% (positive). That number sounds impressive. It is also entirely meaningless without a hypothesis.
Two unrelated trends can correlate strongly when they share an underlying driver — economic growth, technology adoption, demographic change — or when the dataset is small enough for noise to look like a signal. The only thing this chart proves is that "correlation does not imply causation" remains the most-ignored sentence in science.
Treat it as a meme with a citation. Source data is from public, reputable datasets; the implied story is not.
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