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Wait, did people take Stackoverflow's post serious enough to merit a response? I enjoyed the original article and I especially enjoyed the semi-facetious flame
by luhn 9y ago
Wait, did people take Stackoverflow's post serious enough to merit a response?
I enjoyed the original article and I especially enjoyed the semi-facetious flamewar that broke out here on HN, but I thought it was pretty well understood that it was a meaningless, albeit interesting, correlation.
- marcosdumay 9y agoIt patently obvious that liking spaces or tabs better won't change your salary. But it's also an incredibly clear correlation. It must be caused by something (because it's too clear to appear by chance, and too stable on sub-populations). It may be very interesting to find that cause.
- Sean1708 9y ago> It must be caused by something You'd be surprised: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- marcosdumay 9y agoSpurious correlations normally aren't present on sub-populations (unless you try to segment your population on many different ways, what they did, but it was present on nearly all of the ways).