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Can't argue that. (mander.xyz)

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

guess the correlation, looks about like a solid 0.1. Whoever put that regression line in there is crazy, the confidence interval is insulting.

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was about to say that. It’s sad that your comment is the very last in this thread.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

1: it’s not last, and 2: it’s not sad, because 3: people aren’t reading the source material. I love xkcd, too, but that doesn’t apply here.

Just because results don’t match expectations doesn’t mean we should throw pies of satire in their face. That’s like the response in the OP of ‘no’. This is actually interesting.

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The data does not support the conclusion. A simple "no" is okay. Take a look at these examples of regression. See how any one of the conclusions is absurd? Mind you the data in that example is far less random!

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