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Common Misapplications and Misinterpretations of Correlation in Social "Science"
We present consequential mistakes in uses of correlation in social science research: 1) use of subsampling since (absolute) correlation is severely subadditive 2) misinterpretation of the informational value of correlation owing to nonlinearities, 3)
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For those of you who don't know him, he is a mathematician that specializes in probability theory. He had a tweet storm a couple of months ago where he'd berate psychologist as pseudoscientists, and released an essay on medium in which he went through his issues with the notion of IQ.