Andrew Dubin · @indubitablydubin
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Peter Tennant, PhD · @pwgtennant
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Eilís Ní Chaoimh · @eilisnichaoimh
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The drive from Galway to Waterford is my go to time for catching up on .This one is a takedown of .

Kind of sad nobody got to witness the faces I was making as they read some of the passages.

A good example of how data can be manipulated to further a particular agenda. Or where its interpretation relies on bias.

Recommended to all out there.

open.spotify.com/episode/5wHpo

#podcasts #freakonomics #datanerds #ifbookscouldkill #statsadon

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Ewan Donnachie · @ERDonnachie
470 followers · 584 posts · Server mstdn.social

Preparing for that meeting with the person who wants to get all the data and do a series of unspecified "correlation analyses" to find a result, I was reminded of Tyler Vigen's "Spurious Correlation" website.

Always a classic, and very helpful as an illustration.
tylervigen.com/spurious-correl

#statsadon #statistics

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Ewan Donnachie · @ERDonnachie
560 followers · 858 posts · Server mstdn.social

Preparing for that meeting with the person who wants to get all the data and do a series of unspecified "correlation analyses" to find a result, I was reminded of Tyler Vigen's "Spurious Correlation" website.

Always a classic, and very helpful as an illustration.
tylervigen.com/spurious-correl

#statsadon #statistics

Last updated 2 years ago

Joran · @JoranJongerling
816 followers · 2318 posts · Server mastodon.social

Ok, almost done to do more of this stats thing 😉.

#stats #statsadon #coffee

Last updated 2 years ago