r/neoliberal • u/corlystheseasnake • 4d ago

What's The Optimal Red Number Here? User discussion

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u/1XRobot 4d ago

https://i.redd.it/fytjaiusitae1.gif

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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell 3d ago

Are you saying that the association between poverty and homicide is a spurious correlation

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u/1XRobot 3d ago

I wouldn't be, because that's not what the graph purports to show.

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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell 3d ago

So you think increasing global temperatures causes a decrease in the number of pirates? What is the point of the graph if not to point to an example of a spurious correlation?

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u/1XRobot 3d ago

No, I mean OP's graph doesn't purport to show there's an association between poverty and homicide (which there obviously is). It purports to show an association between the location of homicides and the fraction of residents living in locations vaguely associated with poverty. Moreover, it does it in a particularly obtuse way instead of using a scatterplot, which would illuminate the actual correlation, if any.