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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette

Correlation does not always imply causation. Source: Tyler Viglen.
PRICEONOMICS has a good story about Ronald Fisher, statistics, how they are generated, how they are applied and how much people like to fight about them.

Wikipedia article about Ronald.

Via Detroit Steve.

2 comments:

  1. And another thing : if all you have are 11 data points, necessarily integers too, they you should not draw splines between them to suggest continuity!

    Bad graph :-(

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  2. But splines are cool! And spelling things makes you susceptible to being attacked by spiders! People need to be aware of the danger! Danger, Will Robinson!

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