Nashville Bachelorettes Go Flat-Earth
Top US Bachelorette-Party Destinations Tracked vs Flat Earth Society Membership
As tracked bachelorette destinations multiplied, Flat Earth Society membership multiplied right alongside. Three days of wine and a rooftop pool party in Nashville does something to a woman. By Sunday brunch, the horizon looks suspiciously straight.
“Flat Earth recruitment runs almost entirely through pedal taverns. Their conversion rate exceeds any megachurch.”
— Dr. Brunch Schtetzler, Cult Defection Researcher
How we paired this data
Stupid Correlations scans hundreds of public time-series datasets and surfaces pairings whose Pearson correlation crosses a comically high threshold. Top US Bachelorette-Party Destinations Tracked and Flat Earth Society Membership hit r ≈ 98% (positive) over the years they overlap — the algorithm flagged it, and we kept it because the headline practically wrote itself.
Crucially, no causal model was tested, no covariates were controlled for, and no peer reviewer was consulted. This is the statistical equivalent of finding two people with the same birthday at a wedding and writing a paper about destiny. Real research adjusts for confounders; we adjust the caption for laughs.
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