Book Review: Bernoulli's Fallacy
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> Regression: What we call “linear regression” today was named for an observation that genes “regressed” to some average. It was a way of saying, “don’t mix with those people, or your children will regress and make society worse for it.”
> Correlation: Literally from co-relation, or how related two “desirable” traits were in a population. You might guess which traits eugenicists thought made one desirable.
This is another entry to go along with "The so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against", isn't it? Science isn't making enough progress for people to differentiate themselves by their research, so we'll start throwing people out for not keeping up with intellectual fashions like the sociology professors do.
In particular the first three rules:
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis
I bought the book and I’m not sure where those other quotes originated
““A few years after publishing his initial findings, he coined the more general term correlation (originally co-relation) to refer to the association of any two variables that tended to go together, such as a person’s height and their shoe size, and he provided a formula for correlation that would reproduce his “coefficient of reversion” from the heredity studies.”
Excerpt From Bernoulli's Fallacy Aubrey Clayton https://books.apple.com/us/book/bernoullis-fallacy/id1538214... This material may be protected by copyright.
[1]https://www.amazon.com/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die/dp/03001882...
Bernoulli's Fallacy is pretty new though, it was originally published (hardcover) in August 2021. Which likely explains why GoodReads has more ratings, since it's barely been a year yet and books like this aren't exactly the mainstream vogue.
Thanks for the recommendation though, I'll (eventually, backlogs are a disease) have to add it to my collection.
It was a bit like a zip drive in the 80s.
They were named after Bernoulli's principle, IIRC: because it made the air run faster and the soft magnetic material levitated inside the case.
Later Zip drives (also by Iomega) replaced them, which meant there was no need to have SCSI controllers in every machine...