Statistics for Spurious Correlations

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Per capita cheese consumption (0.947)	Number of people dying by becoming tangled in their bedsheets	37%
US spending on science, space and technology (0.998)	Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation	37%
Number of people drowned by falling into a pool (0.667)	Number of films Nicholas Cage appeared in	36%
Marriage rate in New York (0.880)	Murders by blunt object	33%
People who starved to death in the US (0.967)	Per capita consumption of margarine in US	32%
Bicyclists killed in collision with a stationary object (0.857)	People who died by falling from a ladder	27%
US domestic price of uranium (0.977)	Accidental poisonings by alcohol	19%
Number of people killed by misusing a lawnmower (0.974)	UK military defence spending	17%
Apple iPhone sales (0.995)	People who died by falling down the stairs	14%
Number of people killed by dogs (0.996)	Online revenue on Black Friday	12%

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