Re:Guess the Correlation
by isomorph on Saturday February 13, 2016 @06:35PM
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The higher the correlation, the harder I find it to guess. (r = ... umm... :P )
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My physics prof was fond of saying "Your intuition sucks."
I played by following my intuition and did quite well in the higher end but found the lower end much harder. I'm guessing because I was feeling my way through it, my brain was trying to see patterns even where there weren't any, pushing my guesses higher than the plot showed.
> found the lower end much harder
Same, although I think I overcompensated for the tendency to see patterns everywhere and generally guessed too low for R < 0.5.
Re:Guess the Correlation
by Houshalter on Saturday February 13, 2016 @06:47PM
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Intuition doesn't suck, it just needs to be trained. That seems to be the purpose of this game.