Cynical statistician is cynical
Mar. 24th, 2009 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Back when I was a postgrad student, my reaction to a high R2 value* was "Yay, it works!" Now it's more like "It's a trick. Get an axe."
(Seriously, I am pleasantly surprised when admin data shows any sort of correlation to theory at all. Predicting admin data with R2=0.85 from a simple rule of thumb? That's just unsettling.)
*Translation: the data follows a nice straight line.
(Seriously, I am pleasantly surprised when admin data shows any sort of correlation to theory at all. Predicting admin data with R2=0.85 from a simple rule of thumb? That's just unsettling.)
*Translation: the data follows a nice straight line.
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Date: 2009-03-24 08:53 pm (UTC)*here meaning "point out that I never actually granted it in the first place, and wasn't about to change that position".