Luke_A_Somers comments on Why the tails come apart - LessWrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 27 July 2014 02:00:37AM *  2 points [-]

45% to 55% of what measure? Part of the point of this is that how you cut your sample will change these things.

If you take it as 45% to 55% of one of the other contributing factors, then the correlation should be much stronger!

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 July 2014 09:07:49AM *  1 point [-]

Does he argue it for any measure? Height for the basketball players?