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Google searches for 'best colleges' correlates with...
| Variable | Correlation | Years | Has img? |
| Master's degrees awarded in Biological and biomedical sciences | r=0.99 | 10yrs | No |
| US GDP per capita | r=0.98 | 14yrs | No |
| Bachelor's degrees awarded in interdisciplinary studies | r=0.97 | 10yrs | Yes! |
| Bachelor's degrees awarded in Agriculture | r=0.97 | 10yrs | No |
| Berkshire Hathaway's stock price (BRK.A) | r=0.97 | 20yrs | No |
| McDonald's stock price (MCD) | r=0.96 | 20yrs | No |
| Annual Revenue of Walt Disney Company | r=0.96 | 19yrs | No |
| American-type cheese consumption | r=0.96 | 18yrs | No |
| Global Rice Consumption | r=0.96 | 14yrs | No |
| American cheese consumption | r=0.96 | 18yrs | No |
| Google's Advertising Revenue | r=0.95 | 19yrs | No |
| Analog Devices' stock price (ADI) | r=0.95 | 20yrs | No |
| Walmart's stock price (WMT) | r=0.94 | 20yrs | No |
| eBay Inc.'s stock price (EBAY) | r=0.91 | 20yrs | No |
| The number of bartenders in Idaho | r=0.6 | 19yrs | 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.)