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The article makes some good points, but I thought this was incorrect: > The only reason to tweet a graph or chart at someone rather than to report a coefficien
by cortesoft 5y ago
The article makes some good points, but I thought this was incorrect:
> The only reason to tweet a graph or chart at someone rather than to report a coefficient of determination is to obfuscate.
That isn't true. They use graphs and charts because most people don't understand what a coefficient of determination is. If you tweeted out that number, your tweet would not convince anyone because they wouldn't know what it means.
- analog31 5y agoGranted, I'm not a statistician, so maybe I don't trust myself to use statistics blindly, but the first thing I do when I calculate a statistic is to look at a graph to see if the statistic is believable.
- murgindrag 5y agoIt means very little. I can show several charts with the same coefficient, and they'll mean very different things.