When they built New York's skyscrapers, they hired predominantly people from the Mohawk tribe to do riveting a three hundred feet above ground because they lacked fear of heights.
At what point does a correlation become useful as a statistical tool?
Re:Data scientists shouldn't use Upwork
by gurkendoktor on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:53PM
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Every proven correlation is immediately useful as a statistical tool! But we also don't jail people when there's an 80% chance they're guilty. Not everything is about efficiency.
There's a difference between acknowledging some correlations, and using them as statistical tools in the job market. The latter is thankfully illegal or at least frowned upon.