Re: CDC


Message posted by lone wolf on July 07, 2004 at 21:37:47 PST:

I'm positive there is something alien about Kraft singles!

Note that often things are correlated, but there is absolutely no connection between them. There was a clever paper written in Scientific American in the 1970's called "Stein's Paradox." Stein (or the authoer if it wasn't Mr. Stein) went around finding items to correlate where there was absolutely no connection. One example was to correlate baseball batting averages and the percentage of foreign cars in the parking lot at the statium. The teams were averaging .250, and 25% of the cars in the lot were foreign. [Hey, this was the 1970's.] So the numbers correlated, but clearly there is no connection.

In scientific analysis of data, you look for correlations, then try to discover the mechanics (if any) behind the correlation.


In Reply to: Re: CDC posted by Lin Davis on July 07, 2004 at 21:15:50 PST:

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