Thursday, March 26

Why I'm Happy I Didn't Go to Harvard

Check this out. A Harvard Economist's explanation of how Twitter caused this economic meltdown.

My response is best explained by the following XKCD comic.

Correlation by XKCD

4 comments:

  1. Wtf, sigh, how statistics is misused. -_-

    <3 the XKCD though. :D

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  2. Ok guys, you might want to note that the first "related link" is entitled "Internet Hoax Psychology." Seriously, get those BS detectors checked and give Harvard a tiny bit of credit.

    Also Benn your comment login system doesn't work at all for me, not sure if others have this experience.

    Jackson

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  3. Haha, thanks Jackson. :D I need to be more cognizant sometimes.

    I think if you click "Google Account" under the "Comment as" thing, it should default to your Google account. I've had issues in the past.

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  4. Fine, so fooled again by an internet hoax, it's not the first time, and it won't be the last. I saw a link to it from a web design blog on About.com. I obviously missed the sarcasm.

    I'm still glad I went to Michigan though.

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