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Take a regression correlation, multiply by 100, and you have a crude sort of "percent". People intuit percent better than more complex (yet probably more mathem
by jballanc 18y ago
Take a regression correlation, multiply by 100, and you have a crude sort of "percent". People intuit percent better than more complex (yet probably more mathematically rigorous) comparisons. If the book is written for a lay audience, this seems like an appropriate term.
- tokenadult 18y agoThat probably is where his "percent" is coming from, but I'm so used to reading even popular literature that doesn't dumb things down like that (preferring to explain typical ranges of correlations) that it was jarring to read that in the newspaper article. Maybe the newspaper editors imposed that on an author who does better in his book. But what exactly does it MEAN to say "their IQ scores, for example, tend to be around 70 percent similar" when IQ scores have their own scale?