RichardKennaway comments on The usefulness of correlations - Less Wrong

13 Post author: RichardKennaway 04 August 2009 07:00PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 August 2009 10:22:20PM 0 points [-]

As pjeby points out, I gave the examples of "psychology and social science". Look at reports that summarise statistical results by claims of the form "X's are Y's", sometimes by the scientists themselves, not journalists. If you want something more concrete than those generalities, see the context of this comment.