why that was nice

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

nice shoes dawg

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

my pysc teacher used to use ice cream sales and **** during the summer to illustrate the point.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Correlation and CausationWe must be very careful in interpreting correlation coefficients. Just because two variables are highly correlated does not mean that one causes the other. In statistical terms, we say that correlation does not imply causation. There are many good examples of correlation which are nonsensical when interpreted in terms of causation.

Ice cream sales and the number of shark attacks on swimmers are correlated.

Skirt lengths and stock prices are highly correlated (as stock prices go up, skirt lengths get shorter).

The number of cavities in elementary school children and vocabulary size have a strong positive correlation.

Three relationships which can be taken (or mistaken) for causation are:

Causation: Changes in X cause changes in Y. For example, football weekends cause heavier traffic, more food sales, etc.

Common response: Both X and Y respond to changes in some unobserved variable. All three of our examples are examples of common response.

Ice cream sales and shark attacks both increase during summer.

Skirt lengths and stock prices are both controlled by the general attitude of the country, liberal or conservative.

The number of cavities and children's vocabulary are both related to a child's age.

Confounding: The effect of X on Y is hopelessly mixed up with the effects of other explanatory variables on y. For example, if we are studying the effects of Tylenol on reducing pain, and we give a group of pain-sufferers Tylenol and record how much their pain is reduced, we are confounding the effect of giving them Tylenol with giving them any pill. Many people report a reduction in pain by simply being given a sugar pill with no medication in it at all, this is called the placebo effect. To establish causation, a designed experiment must be run.

you're wrong. everytime my neighbor puts his car in the garage it rains 10 minutes later. there must be some kind of switch that his car is running over.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i was running correlations on SPSS all morning, but its hard to argue with your reason Eugenics.

 

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

go smoke a blunt since the weather is shitty

 

[zyklonb 10+ year member]

I myself used to cmoke everysingle day of my life from the middle of 9th grade summer to the middle of junior year. not to be "cool" or that i thought it was fun, i jusr smoked by myself becasue it made my mind more active and i thought better on it. throughout my entire 10th and halfway through 11th grade i had a GPA of around 95. as soon as i stopped smoking, no real reason i stopped just kinda got boring, my grades fell drasticaly, i wasnt paying attention as much i couldnt remember lessons from the week before i felt like i was learning everything over again. BTW i smoked everyday before school, after school and right before i went to sleep. So anyone saying that drugs are leading to poverty and decline in our economic system or some stupid sh!t stfu.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

my pysc teacher used to use ice cream sales and **** during the summer to illustrate the point.

I'm taking research methods right now and advanced methods this summer. Its actually pretty interesting.

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

my gpa was 100 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

I'm taking research methods right now and advanced methods this summer. Its actually pretty interesting.

we talked about correlations in pysc class. we also watched a short film about phineous gage

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

my gpa was 100 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

was?

Mine still IS 100.

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

was?
Mine still IS 100.

taking a break from the school thing. at one point it was 117 but i quit doing cat piss

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

we did a multistage cluster sample of the city, and in advanced im going to write the data up in a paper.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

taking a break from the school thing. at one point it was 117 but i quit doing cat piss

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[zyklonb 10+ year member]

Its a plant put here to filter out the defects..and you have all failed the test.

God might forgive you if you kill yourself quickly in order to lessen the impact your existence has.

probally the dumbest shallow minded words in the entire thread

STFU

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

smoking weed is basically supporting terrorism and the killing of American babies.