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"
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteWell, better baby names does seem like something we could accomplish without congress.
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