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				Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:56 pm
				by thibodeaux
				Leisher wrote:
 
Correlation therefore causation! 
			
					
				
				Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:07 pm
				by TPRJones
				The picture doesn't say anything about causation, it only points out the correlation.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:14 pm
				by thibodeaux
				I know that, but people have been citing this factoid and saying "video games are good for your kid!"
Without confidence intervals and R values, this kind of crap is worse than useless.
And in case you don't get the joke, if you do an experiment 20 times, you would NOT be surprised if 1 of them had a p<0.05 outcome.  Because 1 in 20 is 5%, see?
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				Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:35 pm
				by GORDON
				Hickory is the most difficult wood I've ever split.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:37 pm
				by Malcolm
				thibodeaux wrote:I know that, but people have been citing this factoid and saying "video games are good for your kid!"
Without confidence intervals and R values, 
this kind of crap is worse than useless.
And in case you don't get the joke, if you do an experiment 20 times, you would NOT be surprised if 1 of them had a p<0.05 outcome.  Because 1 in 20 is 5%, see?
 
Statistics is the religion of math.  After reading research paper bajillion and one, I determined that 99% of them had such a narrow statistical analysis that they made the head of a pin look like Ron Jeremy's cock. 
			
					
				
				Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:31 pm
				by Paul
				
			 
			
					
				
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				Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:36 pm
				by Paul
				
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:41 pm
				by Paul
				This is worth two of Leisher's pics.

...if any actually had bush that is.
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				Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:18 pm
				by Paul
				Who farted?

 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:45 pm
				by Paul
				
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:46 pm
				by Leisher
				
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:47 pm
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				Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:47 pm
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				Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:47 pm
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				Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:48 pm
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				Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:48 pm
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				Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:49 pm
				by Malcolm
				
That would be trippy to play on.  Could easily make some cosmic billiards.

Shit, we had that back in high school.