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having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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shpalman wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:12 pm Mathematics!

Same Stats, Different Graphs

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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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sTeamTraen wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:48 pm 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.
True, but there are plenty of more straightforward examples that do work

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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sTeamTraen wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:34 am Results like data set 4 there appear a lot in psychology.
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shpalman wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:44 pm from the Mocking Religion thread
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

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