This is the most useless regression I've ever seen. A wonderful example of how you can draw a line on a graph that is literally meaningless by using a regression equationpic.twitter.com/L88VRehnJA
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@ADAlthousePhD you'll love this one, it's just wonderful
Everyone knows that ~real~ statisticians use Excel to calculate their trend lines
Also, I extrapolated the polynomial curve and it looks like we are SUPER lucky. By 2029 there will be no outbreaks caused by raw milk at all, and by 2050 raw milk will be preventing hundreds of raw milk caused outbreaks each year!pic.twitter.com/DLvc3aN6ps
I have the whole @xkcdComic #2048 taped on the back of my monitor at work, so anyone that comes to talk with me is distracted and has to read it. I'm hoping people stop trying to tell me "I just ran a regression" and act like it's truth.
And this unreferenced piece of nonsense at the end of the paper gives you a flavour of the tenor of academic rigor employedpic.twitter.com/qEhGWggL15
In love it! But I'm not going to retweet it, because people who don't understand statistics will use it to dismiss any association they don't like (hello Paleo diet fans).
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