Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations


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arcade_revenue 'Total revenue generated by arcades' correlates with 'Computer science doctorates awarded in the US'
cheese_consumption 'Per capita cheese consumption' correlates with 'Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets'
chicken_consumption 'Per capita consumption of chicken' correlates with 'Total US crude oil imports'
divorce_rate_maine 'Divorce rate in Maine' correlates with 'Per capita consumption of margarine'
fishing_boat_drownings 'People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat' correlates with 'Marriage rate in Kentucky'
japanese_cars_sold 'Japanese cars sold in the US' correlates with 'Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle'
math_doctorates 'Mathematics doctorates awarded' correlates with 'Uranium stored at nuclear power plants'
miss_america_age 'Age of Miss America' correlates with 'Murders by steam, hot vapours and hot objects'
mozzarella_consumption 'Per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese' correlates with 'Civil engineering doctorates awarded in the US'
norway_oil_imports 'US crude oil imports from Norway' correlates with 'Drivers killed in collision with railway train'
pool_drownings 'Number of people who drowned by falling into a pool' correlates with 'Films Nicolas Cage appeared in'
space_launches 'Worldwide non-commercial space launches' correlates with 'Sociology doctorates awarded in the US'
spelling_bee_letters 'Letters in the winning word of the Scripps National Spelling Bee' correlates with 'Number of people killed by venomous spiders'
swimming_pool_drownings 'Number of people who drowned while in a swimming-pool' correlates with 'Power generated by US nuclear plants'
us_spending 'US spending on science, space, and technology' correlates with 'Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation'