Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 28, 2011
Children's reading skill is strongly correlated with their shoe size -- because older kids have bigger feet and tend to read better. You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. Thus the correlation between the SMS feed and the building damage is an artifact or spurious correlation.
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