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🍪CRUMBGRABBER🍪@lemm.eeM to Crappy Correlations@lemm.eeEnglish · 18 days ago

The name Thomas correlates with motor vehicle thefts in Maine

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The name Thomas correlates with motor vehicle thefts in Maine

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🍪CRUMBGRABBER🍪@lemm.eeM to Crappy Correlations@lemm.eeEnglish · 18 days ago
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    18 days ago

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

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      18 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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        18 days ago

        Nice!

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    According to my graphs they don’t seem to correlate at all.

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      ^ How lemmy screenshots stock prices to boost a given statement.

    • 🍪CRUMBGRABBER🍪@lemm.eeOPM
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      Scientists are just people trying to prove shit anyway.

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      Amazing findings. How can we fund you more?

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      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.

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    Thomas the take engines

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

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    His career peaked in the 1980s, and people stopped naming their kids after him.

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