prerat@prerationalist·Feb 12OK NOW EXPLAIN TO ME WTF IS A CORRELATION. DON'T DUMB IT DOWN EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT IT IS OR ELSE &c &c362112
QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)@QiaochuYuanReplying to @prerationalistif you plot two variables against each other it’s a measure of how closely that plot resembles a line. the maximum correlation of 1 means it is exactly a line, less correlation means it is less a line. but see also:blog.revolutionanalytics.comThe Datasaurus DozenThere's a reason why data scientists spend so much time exploring data using graphics. Relying only on data summaries like means, variances, and correlations can be dangerous, because wildly differ...8:18 PM · Feb 12, 2022·Twitter for iPad1 Quote Tweet21 Likes