Craft Beer Scared Off Bigfoot
Bigfoot Sighting Reports vs US Craft Breweries
As craft breweries boomed, Bigfoot sightings tanked. Sasquatch hates hoppy IPAs. He fled the forests the moment a lumberjack said "notes of citrus."
“Cryptids simply cannot tolerate a 7.2% ABV double IPA. Science has finally solved the Pacific Northwest mystery.”
— Dr. Hops McSasquatch, Cryptozoologist
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. Bigfoot Sighting Reports and US Craft Breweries hit r ≈ 94% (negative) 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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