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Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

guess the correlation, looks about like a solid 0.1. Whoever put that regression line in there is crazy, the confidence interval is insulting.

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DonPiano@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How do you think a case of “this explains some of the differences in the population, but not a lot” should look?

And that looks potentially fine for an error bar. For a mean estimate, SE=SD/√N , so depending on what error band they used this looks quite plausible.

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- DonPiano@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Also, the R^2 is even in the picture: .11
  
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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Was about to say that. It’s sad that your comment is the very last in this thread.

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- LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  1: it’s not last, and 2: it’s not sad, because 3: people aren’t reading the source material. I love xkcd, too, but that doesn’t apply here.
  
  We don’t need to throw satire pies in the just because results don’t match expectations doesn’t mean we should throw pies of satire in their face. This is actually interesting.
  
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