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Douglas_Knight comments on How Islamic terrorists reduced terrorism in the US - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: PhilGoetz 11 January 2015 05:19AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 11 January 2015 07:13:46PM *  14 points [-]

I know you didn't make the graphs, but ...

I don't like line graphs. They're a kind of smoothing, but almost never the right choice. The first two graphs are smooth enough that it hardly matters what you do, but I redid the third as a scatterplot plus a loess curve.

loess plus scatter

Here's the loess superimposed on the line graph, if you want to compare them. I got the data here, linked from here