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Correlation != Causation. I moved to a city and sold my car, and shortly after used ride sharing for the first time. But I don't use it much and it certainly di
by ajb 9y ago
Correlation != Causation. I moved to a city and sold my car, and shortly after used ride sharing for the first time. But I don't use it much and it certainly didn't cause me to sell it. I wouldn't be surprised of that's just how many of their customers recently moved to a city.
- shafyy 9y agoBut then you wouldn't answer the question with "Yes" in their survey, would you?
- ajb 9y agoThat depends what the question was. If they'd asked outright whether I specifically sold the car for that reason, they no, I wouldn't. But to be honest, I suspect the survey of being designed by their PR dept to generate this result, and I can imagine questions I might have answered 'yes' to that could then be interpreted in this way.
- shafyy 9y agoDefinitely. I tried to find the report to see if they have appended the questionnaire, but it returns a 404: https://take.lyft.com/economic-impact/Lyft-Drives-Economy.pdf https://take.lyft.com/economic-impact/Lyft-Drives-Economy.pd...
- bllguo 9y agoWhat a tiresome rebuttal, I'm sure Lyft's army of statisticians and data scientists managed to somehow overlook STAT 101.