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I think eyeballing a scatterplot is often more useful than just looking at the p-value.
by bonoboTP 7y ago
I think eyeballing a scatterplot is often more useful than just looking at the p-value.
- dhosek 7y agoOne of the big takeaways from my stats class is that eyeballing a scatterplot is much less useful than you think it is.
- marcosdumay 7y agoEyeballing something is useful to get theories that can actually explain the data. Numeric statistics are useful to disprove those. If you are at an exploratory phase and your plots look a sky map, then you have a bad data representation. On that case you can't even extrapolate a positive correlation into a theory that one value will grow when the other grows on any specific case.