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The dinosaur drawing is a little gimmicky or "so what do you do with this?". Far better and more applicable to real life is the lesson in Anscombe's quartet: h
by supernova87a 6y ago
The dinosaur drawing is a little gimmicky or "so what do you do with this?". Far better and more applicable to real life is the lesson in Anscombe's quartet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
It's all the more important to have a trained skepticism of stats when every day you hear things like, "we just had the greatest quarter of economic growth in history!"
- 1wheel 6y agoThere's a dinosaur version of Anscome's Quartet: https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats
- supernova87a 6y agooh, very nice!
- conjectures 6y ago> It's all the more important to be trained in stats There, fixed that for you ;)