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> Will the results be correlated? Of course, some people are more athletic than others. Does that mean there's a quantity called 'athleticism' that we can objec
by ndriscoll 4y ago
> Will the results be correlated? Of course, some people are more athletic than others. Does that mean there's a quantity called 'athleticism' that we can objectively measure with a number? No
Admittedly I haven't really studied statistics, but can't you do something like measure those abilities for a population, do a PCA, and define athleticism to be the first principal component?
- AstralStorm 4y agoAnd then you find out that the first component is height x age. :) PCA/CCA almost never tells you what the components are. ICA is a bit better at that but still not great.