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SnooPeripherals1914 t1_j8wkh5b wrote

Traditionally you’d express this with an r sq instead of just eye-balling trend lines…

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mr_bojangals t1_j8y9npa wrote

Well R-sqr would be if one was a model of the other. This would just need a correlation coefficient.

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Then_I_had_a_thought t1_j8z0v20 wrote

In grad school we called it “Chi by Eye”

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raff7 t1_j8z4n9t wrote

Loool that’s hilarious.. I genuinely hope this is true and not just a joke ahaha

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wonder_bear t1_j8wtt27 wrote

This is the best comment

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RockDog2022 t1_j8x2a46 wrote

Completely agree with above. Also though, you would loosely expect to see a 'google' trend of this nature follow any topic of interest. Certainly not a leading indicator.

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Grains-Of-Salt t1_j8zi4t9 wrote

This sub is really more of a “data based entertainment” subreddit at this point.

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MrTickle t1_j8zmckz wrote

To be fair stats are pretty ugly to most people, wouldn’t really fit the theme to be stat heavy.

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fasnoosh t1_j9adno2 wrote

You’d want to create a scatterplot, with one data point per x value on the line chart, and in the scatterplot, x & y axis represents each trendline color. Then, you could fit that with a model (maybe linear regression), and from that model you could get some metrics out of it, like R squared & confidence intervals

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