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beautifully meaningless correlations

Choking deaths on food in the US

correlates with

IRS individual tax returns e-filed

r = 0.99299% · 2005-2021
Choking deaths on food in the USIRS individual tax returns e-filed

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2005-2021. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Choking deaths on food in the USwonder.cdc.gov
IRS individual tax returns e-filedirs.gov
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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