• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    I love it. The more colorful correlations serve to chip away at the robust correlation is causation illusion.

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      23 days ago

      My favorite that I use in my stats class is Nic Cage movies and drowning. Its the same as Ice Cream Sales and Drowning, but I get to use images of Nic Cage.

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    23 days ago

    This is the kind of overfitting our machine-learning overlords will find as we operate the data centers with more fossil fuels. Amazing! /s

  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    They correlate about as well as respiration rate and Sp02. I know that’s a silly comparison, but hopefully, we’re all learning a little more about statistics in the context of epistemology.