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False Positives and Spurious Correlations: An Interview with Professor Mark White

Post author By The SAIS Review
Post date April 18, 2014

What’s wrong with big data? Is its use causing more mistakes? Professor Mark White discusses the negative implications of the newest trend in research with SAIS Review Assistant Editor Kyle Johnson.

Tags big data, causation, correlation, interview, kyle johnson, large hadron collider, mark white, nate silver, SAIS Review, statistics, the signal and the noise