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I am no statistician, but all they did was a linear regression on an extremely small population and concluded that, somehow, correlation = causation. > "Our ou
by juunpp 4y ago
I am no statistician, but all they did was a linear regression on an extremely small population and concluded that, somehow, correlation = causation.
> "Our outcome of interest is Soccer Prowess, which counts the number of players, born in a given country, nominated to the Ballon d’Or in the period 2016 to 2019"
An extremely small population.
> "The estimated coefficient on Meat Consumption is smaller when we include the full set of control variables, but remains positive and statistically significant."
Doesn't mean anything?
They somehow also conveniently ignored all the players who eat meat and don't make it. And the cocaine.
I am not sure what this is about.
- jhap 4y agoNo causation reported
- juunpp 4y agoYeah. I don't understand the point then. I can get two completely unrelated variables and show that there is correlation between them.
- katamarimambo 4y agoAnything that is big in Argentina and Brazil will cause this correlation. Causation is obviously false, footballers mostly came from poverty and at least in Brazil meat is not so frequently consumed by them because of the cost.