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 A point cloud (not sure if that's exactly possible in this context?) would be far less impressive.
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@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. -
@othercriteria y'know, eyeballing it, it looks like if you partitioned the F data in the middle and fit the left and right sides separately> -
@othercriteria ...the correlation might reverse completely. -
@othercriteria Which has zero validity for anything, it's just interesting that the data's that crappy. -
@othercriteria "in both low- and high-skill groups, increasing skill correlated with fewer compliments"
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@St_Rev Bumping up R version to do this right now. It's an empirical question, so might as well try it? -
@othercriteria Cool, let me know if you find something interesting
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