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TBH I can't remember the last time I saw non-normalized correlations in a study and the paper lost some credibility.. who does that, and why? What does a correl
by wutf 11y ago
TBH I can't remember the last time I saw non-normalized correlations in a study and the paper lost some credibility.. who does that, and why? What does a correlation of 25.76 mean? Relative to what? That's why you bound it 0 to 1.
- minimaxir 11y agoCorrelation is constrained to 0 and 1 as a side effect of the mathematics. The definition of correlation mentioned in the paper makes zero sense whatsoever and apparently invokes Bayes's rule?
- TearsInTheRain 11y agothe correlation is that out of the people that program in language A, X% of them also program in language B. This can also be expressed as given that someone programs in language A, the probability that they program in language B is X. It looks like the table is expressing the correlation in terms of % even though they dont mention that on the table.
- minimaxir 11y agoEDIT: I'm dumb
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoBecause they're percentages. Or are any of them greater than 100?