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Meaningless Significance

While looking for an image to use in this post, I found a wonderful article that says what I'm about to say, perhaps more eloquently than I have (I also borrowed their image). These two quotes, in particular, are spot on:

"Except in the limiting case of literally zero correlation, if the sample were large enough all of the coefficients would be significantly different from everything.” (McCloskey, p.


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