Always visualization your data
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Always visualization your data
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Always visualization your data
Love it!
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Re: Always visualization your data
To be fair, a correlation of 0.06 is very often uninteresting even before graphing it. And as you increase the correlation it becomes a lot harder to draw pictures.
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Re: Always visualization your data
True, but there are plenty of more straightforward examples that do worksTeamTraen wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:48 pmTo be fair, a correlation of 0.06 is very often uninteresting even before graphing it. And as you increase the correlation it becomes a lot harder to draw pictures.
From the NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods, http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ which I point new engineers to when they ask me questions about the background to stats that we use.
https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handboo ... /eda16.htm
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Results like data set 4 there appear a lot in psychology.
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On brand for you, @sTeamTraensTeamTraen wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:34 amResults like data set 4 there appear a lot in psychology.
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Re: Always visualization your data
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Always visualization your data
Ha,
Don't forget this.
https://twitter.com/mdespriee/status/13 ... 69568?s=20
The person who posted the original graphs deleted his account. It was about phrenology and whether someone seemed trustworthy.
It did inspire me to go fishing and find a stronger correlation than some they were reporting
Yes, that is China is population rank=1 Afghanistan alphabetical rank=1 and yes it is bad.
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Raaagh! Raaagh! Raaaaaaaaagh!