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.
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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zephorah@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 1y
I love it. The more colorful correlations serve to chip away at the robust correlation is causation illusion.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
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.
zephorah@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Nice!
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
According to my graphs they don't seem to correlate at all.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
^ How lemmy screenshots stock prices to boost a given statement.
Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Scientists are just people trying to prove shit anyway.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Amazing findings. How can we fund you more?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
KaiReeve@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Thomas the take engines
jdnewmil@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
This is the kind of overfitting our machine-learning overlords will find as we operate the data centers with more fossil fuels. Amazing! /s
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
His career peaked in the 1980s, and people stopped naming their kids after him.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y