Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Correlation or Causation?
Business Week has some fun examples of Correlation or Causation? "Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy: All you need are two graphs and a leading question"
2 comments:
Karl
said...
Nice. Some of the correlations seem tenuous at best, but the housing bubble one caught my attention (although they might have gotten it backward). I wonder if they normalized for births, or if the trend is simply tracking more babies born during the uptick. I think we need a study that explores the broader impact of baby names on financial prosperity.
2 comments:
Nice. Some of the correlations seem tenuous at best, but the housing bubble one caught my attention (although they might have gotten it backward). I wonder if they normalized for births, or if the trend is simply tracking more babies born during the uptick. I think we need a study that explores the broader impact of baby names on financial prosperity.
Well, better baby names does seem like something we could accomplish without congress.
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