AI models often rely on “spurious correlations,” making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

While thinking about what causes people to treat money differently, behavioural economist M. Keith Chen hit on a fascinating idea. “Why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and ...

This is a guest post by Kirstin Holsman, who works on developing quantitative methods for ecosystem-based fisheries management and methods to assess and manage for climate-change impacts on fish and ...

Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

An example of spurious correlations in job recommendation, where the positive interactions with the full-time jobs show strong correlations with the users′ 4 and 6 years of experience. Disclaimer: ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Over the weekend, I came across an article via Facebook about the great “root canal cover-up.” The article charges that ...