Choking deaths on food in the US

Online dating revenue and choking fatalities have grown in tandem for seventeen years, a correlation that raises questions about what, exactly, is happening on these first dates.

Online dating industry revenue grew from a few hundred million dollars in 2005 to over $3 billion annually by the early 2020s. Choking deaths on food in the U.S. have trended upward modestly due to demographic aging. Both trends are upward-sloping across the same seventeen years.

Mortality data and market revenue make for uncomfortable correlational bedfellows, but they share the same mathematical property: they both go up.