JoshuaZ comments on [Link] Correlation Graphs Reveal Shocking Information - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Alicorn 25 December 2011 02:26AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (13)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 25 December 2011 03:05:44PM 0 points [-]

Those lines hardly look correlated, let alone casually related.

They don't look that bad compared to the sorts of correlations one gets in messy data. The Facebook-Greek Debt one looks like something I wouldn't be surprised to see for a genuine correlation with messy, real world data.