Wednesday, 6 April 2016

The 8-Bit Video Game That Makes Statistics Addictive

The 8-Bit Video Game That Makes Statistics Addictive

Players see a stream of scatter plots - graphs that visualize the relationship between two things, like temperature and ice-cream sales. Your job is to eyeball the plots and estimate the number R, which measures how correlated the two things are. In the game, R can range from 0 (no correlation at all) to 1 (a perfect positive correlation).

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