Re:System – A resource that aims to explain how everything i...
by adam_bly on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:15PM
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And we're big fans of those often hilarious spurious correlations!
But System filters them out (methodologies here: https://docs.system.com/system/using-system/investigating-re... and here: https://docs.system.com/system/how-system-works/relationship...).
Relationships on System are gathered, stored, and presented with a variety of contextualizing fields designed to help System and users evaluate and weigh the evidence. These include Strength, Sign, Direction, Population, Controls, and Reproducibility.
ICYI we discuss and review these methodologies on our slack community (link on system.com).
People have made a game out of finding spurious correlations that are both impressive and funny.
For now the site seems to have a focus on Medicine. That's great because we spend a whole lot of money running RCTs and collecting trial data. But the stakes are also very high.
How do you make sure that System doesn't accidentally become a public resource that explains how anything is (spuriously) related to everything else by confounders and unfortunate correlations?