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The Skeptics Guide #928 - Apr 22 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Effect of Replication on Correlations

The most significant correlation that they found was between older adults and suicide. With a sufficiently large enough data, say you're always going to find patterns in the data. The fact that it had a positive p-value is not enough. But I think the p-hacking that is screaming in this data is what other variables did they look at?

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