How Correlated Are You?

Re:How Correlated Are You? by badcppdev on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:03AM (#37320752)

"6,000 adult US military personnel (4,082 men and 1,986 women)." .... "Despite the presence of reservists in the sample, it is still not an approximation of the US Civilian population"

This dataset is from the US military so please remember that when you think about generalising these results to the rest of the world.

Since everyone is talking about it Ear Protrusion 'might' be strongly correlated to height IF you don't exclude short people from the sample set.

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Re:How Correlated Are You? by legobmw99 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:55AM (#37321324)

In particular, the statement that weight is the most correlated of any measurement with all the others seems like it would almost certainly not be true of a general population with a broader spectrum of physical fitness

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Re:How Correlated Are You? by krollick on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @12:05PM (#37324161)

I wonder how many significant dimensions a principal components analysis would identify for that data set, and if one of them would correspond to male/female.

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Re:How Correlated Are You? by AllenDowney on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:00AM (#37338227)

Great question -- it is on my list of ideas for a future article!

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