Many criteria can help you evaluate correlations. For more information, read my post aboutHill’s Criteria for Causationfor some examples. Various statistical and experimental methods can help reduce spurious correlations. In particular, these methods can prevent confounding variables from creating spurio...
Consider a hypothetical situation where students assume that there is a correlation between grades and their hair length. The assumption here is that longer the hair, higher the scores. However, the lurking factor here may be that female students got better, may be because they worked harder and...
错误关联 (Spurious Correlation)(Section 4.1) 其实作者这个思路 很像 Causal里面 的 intervention (干预)。 也是之前 因果 最常用的例子,如果 模型在训练的时候 只见过 狗在草地上,那么模型会认为 有草地就是 狗。 可能导致 狗到沙滩上 confidence下降,甚至 认不出 狗了 。 或者 在 草地上的猫 也认为是 ...
View details about correlation #1,402 The Big Bang Theory: A Procreative Catalyst? An Examination of the Relationship between Viewership of a Pop Culture Phenomenon and Online Searches for Baby-Making Techniques Show GenAI's made-up explanation As more people tuned in to watch The Big Bang ...
Spurious correlation: A statistical term referring to two events or variables that appear to be related but are not actually causally linked. Spurious reasoning: An argument or line of reasoning that is based on false assumptions or faulty logic. Spurious claims: Statements or representations that ...
Minority examples, i.e., examples that contradict the spurious correlations present in the majority of data points, have been shown to increase the out-of-distribution generalization of pre-trained language models. In this paper, we first propose using example forgetting to rind minority examples ...
The Rock & The Undead: A Correlation Study Between Dwayne Johnson's Movie Appearances and Google Searches for 'Zombies' Show GenAI's made-up explanation The Rock's blockbuster movies were so electrifying, they reanimated an interest in zombies among the audience. It's as if his sheer star po...
causation and correlationUnrelated time series data can show spurious correlations by virtue of a shared drift in the long term trend. The spuriousness of such correlations is demonstrated with examples. The SP500 stock market index, GDP at current prices for the USA, and the number of ...
Spurious Correlation Examples Interesting correlations are easy to find, but many will turn out to be spurious. Three examples are the hemline theory, the Super Bowl indicator, and a suggested correlation between race and college completion rates. Hemline Theory Originating in the 1920s, the hemlin...
Spurious Correlation Examples Interesting correlations are easy to find, but many will turn out to be spurious. Three examples are the hemline theory, the Super Bowl indicator, and a suggested correlation between race and college completion rates. Hemline Theory Originating in the 1920s, the hemlin...