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Also remember good old Pearson and his spurious correlations. If you have x/z and y/z and you plot 'em out do not be surprised if there is a corrrelation. htt
by sgt101 4y ago
Also remember good old Pearson and his spurious correlations.
If you have x/z and y/z and you plot 'em out do not be surprised if there is a corrrelation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_correlation_of_ratios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_correlation_of_ratios
For examples see chocolate and nobel prizes ;o)
- bschne 4y agoOne of the funniest assignments I got in university was a recent one from a finance course: The prof had us generate a bunch of random company characteristics and yearly returns, then fish for correlations and come up with fake newspaper-style stories about why these "effects" we found made sense.