Peculiar study http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131613 … smarmily misreported by WaPo http://wpo.st/emcR0 . The graph in the WaPo is not actual data.
@othercriteria ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Don't have the background to critique the stats, as I said! Would love to see reporter explain that graph tho.
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@St_Rev I guess "the better X gets, the more likely Y" phrasing hints at causation, but it's hard to be much less committal. -
@othercriteria It doesn't appear that female voices are treated worse in the mean, interestingly. Though depends on the skill distribution. -
@othercriteria But--stop me if I'm wrong here--but WaPo's presentation of the graph seems deeply misleading in that it's not actual data. -
@othercriteria It's the graph of a fitted model, yeah? So there's a bait-and-switch--it looks impossibly clean because it is. -
@othercriteria A point cloud (not sure if that's exactly possible in this context?) would be far less impressive. -
@St_Rev Certainly far less impressive... Though it's roughly consistent with the effect being real and the low-ish n.pic.twitter.com/yKPIsRXXj3
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@othercriteria Jesus, I missed the y-axis cropping. Ugh. -
@othercriteria They might have a good p-value but the predictive value is clearly nil and zip. - 4 more replies
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@St_Rev That's okay! The figure caption on the WaPo article isn't distorting Kasumovic and Kuznekoff too badly. (But that thal bashing doe)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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