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I hope he has better evidence than what is presented in this article - a line chart that should have been a histogram and which muddies the data by inverting th
by zb 12y ago
I hope he has better evidence than what is presented in this article - a line chart that should have been a histogram and which muddies the data by inverting the supposed cause and effect; a study that shows a decline in the psychological well being of a group of Marines after a month training at altitude that is blamed (incredibly) on the altitude and not the training; various anecdotes.
- ndonnellan 12y agoI was confused by the chart. Higher suicide rates cause higher altitudes? If the axes were reversed, the interpretation would seem very different (rate shoots up for a small change in altitude, then levels off at higher altitudes). Also the buckets are unequal (but maybe that's what vingtile means. What is a vingtile, anyone?)
- zb 12y agoI believe a vingtile is like a quartile, except that there are 20 of them instead of 4 (vingt = 20 in French). So I'm guessing each bucket contains an equal number of counties, rather than being an equal size.