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> The “bigger” your data, the more false positives will turn up in it, when you’re looking for correlations I think they are talking about the Sharpshooter Fal
by emiliobumachar 13y ago
> The “bigger” your data, the more false positives will turn up in it, when you’re looking for correlations
I think they are talking about the Sharpshooter Fallacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
- gizzlon 13y agoNate Silver writes about this in his book.. highly recommended. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver#Book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver#Book