"Every time you find yourself saying that there must be some causal relationship between two strongly correlated variables, you should go back and look at this graph"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
No, you've got it backwards. The decreasing fatality rate has made it cheaper to insure truck drivers, lowering the cost of importing lemons.
- Jim Norris
On a related note, does 50 Likes on this graph mean that Bret's friend love math? Well, I guess it just means he has 11,000 followers.
- j1m
@Peng Given recent events re:pirates I've been predicting a reversal to the global warming trend.
- James Macgill
The problem with statistics - simplify enough, ignore enough variables and pick your measurements well, and you can get patterns where none exist. And it happens in policy making every month, I fear! MORE LEMONS!!!!!!!!!!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time."
- Michael Kuhn