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Taleb was recently steaming on Twitter about a similar thing done to supposedly show a correlation between physician salary and covid mortality: https://twitter
by leto_ii 6y ago
Taleb was recently steaming on Twitter about a similar thing done to supposedly show a correlation between physician salary and covid mortality: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1279954325087891464 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1279954325087891464
He follows it with a few examples of spurious regressions from random data: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1280090844113100801 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1280090844113100801
- nvader 6y agoThe chart referenced in this article was by the same author. https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1277769775855235072/photo/1 https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1277769775855235072/... https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1279210404602712064/photo/1 https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1279210404602712064/... My favourite part is the discussion about what a vertical line of regression means. https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1279905458812149760 https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1279905458812149760 Discovering a vertical regression line sounds like a beautiful prompt for a hard sci-fi short story.
- leto_ii 6y ago> The chart referenced in this article was by the same author. Didn't realize. This guy is an embarrassment. > Discovering a vertical regression line sounds like a beautiful prompt for a hard sci-fi short story. :)) the tale of the quantum dependent variable.