This is absolutely incredible. As a broadly numerate person who’s never studied stats, I literally did not know that this could be done and while I’d heard about ways to work out what caused what from statistical information I thought they had to have far more assumptions in them. I’m slightly distressed that I studied A level Maths and don’t know this, given that the concept at least can be taught in twenty minutes judging by the post and is massively open to testing (I thought this post didn’t make sense at first and that there were other interpretations of the data, but when I expressed those in the terminology set out it because clear I was wrong.
This is absolutely incredible. As a broadly numerate person who’s never studied stats, I literally did not know that this could be done and while I’d heard about ways to work out what caused what from statistical information I thought they had to have far more assumptions in them. I’m slightly distressed that I studied A level Maths and don’t know this, given that the concept at least can be taught in twenty minutes judging by the post and is massively open to testing (I thought this post didn’t make sense at first and that there were other interpretations of the data, but when I expressed those in the terminology set out it because clear I was wrong.
Seriously, thanks.