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Re:Guess the Correlation by cgriswald on Saturday February 13, 2016 @06:46PM (#11096282)
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.

Re:Guess the Correlation by graedus on Saturday February 13, 2016 @08:04PM (#11096574)
> 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 (#11096288)
Intuition doesn't suck, it just needs to be trained. That seems to be the purpose of this game.