I'm not so sure about the plot in the article. It looks a bit like the "Two-Handed Regression" method mentioned in ["The Management Myth"][1]: "The huntsman ac

I'm not so sure about the plot in the article. It looks a bit like the "Two-Handed Regression" method mentioned in ["The Management Myth"][1]: "The huntsman achieved some celebrity for having invented a new mathematical technique dubbed “the Two-Handed Regression.” When the data on the correlation between two variables revealed only a shapeless cloud—even though we knew damn well there had to be a correlation—he would simply place a pair of meaty hands on the offending bits of the cloud and reveal the straight line hiding from conventional mathematics." [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487