More fun than a barrel of monkeys! spurious data correlations

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault on May 11, 2014; 9:29am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/More-fun-than-a-barrel-of-monkeys-spurious-data-correlations-tp6790.html

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Age of Miss America

correlates with

Murders by steam, hot vapours and hot objects

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	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Age of Miss America Years (Wikipedia)	24	24	24	21	22	21	24	22	20	19	22
Murders by steam, hot vapours and hot objects Deaths (US) (CDC)	7	7	7	3	4	3	8	4	2	3	2
Correlation: 0.870127

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