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Is it meaningful to do linear regressions through clouds like the ones shown in Figure 1? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916241252085#fig1-

• airstrike 2y ago
  No
• ChainOfFools 2y ago
  Wow! To expect that a meaningful signal can precipitate out of such a wide noise field seems almost comically credulous. I'm most impressed that they had the temerity to recruit that figure as 'support' for their conclusions.
• gus_massa 2y ago
  the slope is the covariance, that is meaninful.