Choking deaths on food in the US

As organic egg sales have grown, choking deaths have risen, a correlation of 0.984 that adds yet another premium health food to the choking death correlation catalog. The egg is cage-free, the airway is not, and the chart treats both as equivalent upward trends without checking whether the egg has anything to do with the obstruction. It does not. The demographic aging does.

Organic eggs grew to over 1.5 billion dollars. Choking deaths rose with the aging population. Seventeen years, both up, same as every other choking correlation. The organic egg consumers (young, health-conscious) and the choking victims (elderly) are different people buying different eggs for different reasons. The coefficient is shape, not causation.

Seventeen years of organic eggs and choking deaths is another entry in the choking correlation series, which now rivals the bed-fall series in length. The egg is organic, the death is demographic, and the chart produces another coefficient that means nothing except that the population is aging and eggs are trendy. The yolk runs. The statistics run.