2560: "Confounding Variables"

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2560: "Confounding Variables"

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Title text: You can find a perfect correlation if you just control for the residual.

Everyone knows the best way to do statistics is just to ignore all results that don't support your argument!
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Re: 2560: "Confounding Variables"

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Sounds kind of like the Tony Stark quote from Spiderman: Homecoming.
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