Spurious Correlations

Post date: Mar 14, 2013 3:28:33 PM

Here is an interesting blog post in The Chronicle for Higher Education about statistical skepticism. Fun little quote:

I suspect that Chen’s correlations mean nothing at all: There is no causal link, and we do not need an explanatory story. In the kind of world we live in, you wrestle every day with a swirling mass of inexplicable correlations, and then you die.