There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

One important question is whether the magnitude of PEH depends on the general BP status of the individual. Greater PEH in individuals with particularly high BP status would offer even more support for ...

Here for spreading far and wide is (another) graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. On correlation, causation, and the “real” cause of autism Created by ...

AI models often rely on “spurious correlations,” making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have recently become state-of-the-art (SOTA) for personalized recommendation. The core idea of SSL in recommendation is to learn better user and item ...

Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the alarming rate at which bees have been disappearing. Despite the fact that Einstein probably never actually said that if the bees go man ...

Over the weekend, I came across an article via Facebook about the great “root canal cover-up.” The article charges that dentists have known for almost a century that root canals can unleash ...