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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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| First submitted | October 21, 2020 |
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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
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3 Comments
Zupity
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Level 67
Mar 16, 2022
margarine, not margerine
Mrturdlybird
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Level 73
Mar 16, 2022
what are these measures in
Doshy
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Level 43
Mar 17, 2022
The website these are from has all the measures and stuff - https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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