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Calling Bullshit 3.3: Spurious Correlations

Published May 4, 2017

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We look at Tyler Vigen’s silly examples of quantities appear to be correlated over time, and note that scientific studies may accidentally pick up on similarly meaningless relationships. Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West Synopsis: Our world is saturate…

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