minus-squarebenni@lemmy.worldtoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•just messing around with Google ngram, found a surprising correlation with these two wordslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·22 days agoWhy the law of large numbers? I’d think it’s p-hacking. Meaning if he tried out many different combinations, the chances are high he’d eventually come across some which are only correlated by chance. Here’s a related XKCD: linkfedilink
benni@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 4 months agoThe spirit is willing but the flesh is eepylemmy.worldimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down18
arrow-up1208arrow-down1imageThe spirit is willing but the flesh is eepylemmy.worldbenni@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square0fedilink
minus-squarebenni@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Person of sciencelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agowho remakes the exact same meme immediately after it was just posted? I thought this place was supposed to be better than Reddit. linkfedilink
Why the law of large numbers?
I’d think it’s p-hacking. Meaning if he tried out many different combinations, the chances are high he’d eventually come across some which are only correlated by chance. Here’s a related XKCD:![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/significant.png)