I couldn't quite follow what the article was saying about "anaytical paths", but I think they're talking about spurious correlations. I worked on a stats app.

I couldn't quite follow what the article was saying about "anaytical paths", but I think they're talking about spurious correlations. I worked on a stats app. We referred to the problem of finding correlations from data as "the green jelly beans problem" after https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/ . There are techniques to deal with it like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction .