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Spurious Correlations

Can you guess which variable correlates with the variable in the question? The number in brackets is the correlation coefficient; it ranges between 1 and -1, and the further it is from 0, the closer the two variables are correlated.
Source: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Data mostly from between 2000 to 2009
Data mostly from the US
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Last updated: March 17, 2022
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1. Per capita cheese consumption (0.947)
Proportion of US budget spent on defence ✓
Hamster ownership in Maryland ✓
Number of people dying by becoming tangled in their bedsheets ✓
Goals scored by the USA women's football team in friendlies ✓
2. US spending on science, space and technology (0.998)
Vietnamese Communist Party support ✓
Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation ✓
Precipitation in Nevada ✓
Deaths by lightning strikes ✓
3. Number of people drowned by falling into a pool (0.667)
Number of people dying by being crushed by a fridge ✓
Per capita ice cream consumption ✓
Number of films Nicholas Cage appeared in ✓
Blockbuster Video stock price ✓
4. Marriage rate in New York (0.880)
Murders by blunt object ✓
Number of people dying by falling down the stairs ✓
Mutton imports from UK to the US ✓
Hospital admissions with malaria in the US ✓
5. Bicyclists killed in collision with a stationary object (0.857)
Assassination attempts on the US president ✓
Per capita beef consumption ✓
Proportion of vehicles that are electronic ✓
People who died by falling from a ladder ✓
6. Apple iPhone sales (0.995)
Support for the Republican Party in US congressional elections ✓
People who died by falling down the stairs ✓
Divorce rate in California ✓
Percentage of students who drop out of secondary education ✓
7. Number of people killed by dogs (0.996)
Online revenue on Black Friday ✓
Number of people who die in car crashes ✓
Household spending on cat food ✓
US performance at the men's 100m sprint in the Olympics ✓
8. People who starved to death in the US (0.967)
Number of people who die from being crushed by fridge ✓
Household spending on cat food ✓
Revenue generated by arcades ✓
Per capita consumption of margarine in US ✓
9. Number of people killed by misusing a lawnmower (0.974)
People who are college graduates ✓
UK military defence spending ✓
Divorce rate in Vermont ✓
Number of successful organ transplants in the US ✓
10. US domestic price of uranium (0.977)
US imports of cheese ✓
Accidental poisonings by alcohol ✓
Number of deaths by tripping over your own feet ✓
Number of Spiderman comics published ✓
Zupity
+1
Level 66
Mar 16, 2022
margarine, not margerine
Mrturdlybird
+1
Level 67
Mar 16, 2022
what are these measures in
Doshy
+1
Level 41
Mar 17, 2022
The website these are from has all the measures and stuff - https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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