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Always visualization your data

Post by shpalman » Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:12 pm

having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Always visualization your data

Post by Allo V Psycho » Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:05 pm

shpalman wrote:
Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:12 pm
Mathematics!

Same Stats, Different Graphs

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Love it!

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Post by sTeamTraen » 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.
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Post by jimbob » Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:33 am

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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Post by sTeamTraen » Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:34 am

Results like data set 4 there appear a lot in psychology.
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Post by jimbob » Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:33 pm

sTeamTraen wrote:
Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:34 am
Results like data set 4 there appear a lot in psychology.
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Post by shpalman » Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:44 pm

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Post by jimbob » Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:52 pm

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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Yes, that is China is population rank=1 Afghanistan alphabetical rank=1 and yes it is bad.
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Re: Always visualization your data

Post by Stupidosaurus » Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:35 pm

Raaagh! Raaagh! Raaaaaaaaagh!

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