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Do those red lines actually correlate to the dots or did they just collect noisy data and draw totally random lines? Analyzing the "Destination state" and "Dest
by timthelion 9y ago
Do those red lines actually correlate to the dots or did they just collect noisy data and draw totally random lines? Analyzing the "Destination state" and "Dest origin differential" it would appear that the drawn in red lines are actually facing the wrong way. In the "Destination state" graph the trend is strongly opposite to the line.
- saas_co_de 9y agoThe third chart on each line shows the relationship between tax level and net-migration which what they are making their claims about. The individual one (first line) looks like a shotgun blast to me but the business one (second line) shows some correlation.
- username223 9y agoIf you trim the two outliers on the top right plot, it becomes a spherical blob: http://i2.wp.com/microeconomicinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/image001.png http://i2.wp.com/microeconomicinsights.org/wp-content/upload... microeconomics.org is owned by the "Institute for Fiscal Studies," a British think-tank whose funders I haven't bothered to find. If you find the funders, I suspect you can predict the red lines.
- avs733 9y agoif I had a student turn this in I would write them a note telling them its time to come in from their correlation safari.