So I was just looking down the English Premier League Table for the season, and I found that as I went down the list, the goal difference went lower. There’s nothing counterintuitive in this, but the degree of correlation seemed eerie. So I downloaded the data and plotted a scatter-plot. And what do you have?…
Scott Adams, careers and correlation
I’ve written here earlier about how much I’ve been influenced by Scott Adams’s career advice about “being in top quartile of two or more things“. To recap, this is what Adams wrote nearly ten years back: If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to…
What’s your Raashee? Astrology and Vector Length
The problem with western astrology is that there are way too few categories of people according to it. Western astroogy uses a vector of length one – the part of year in which you were born in, and then concocts a story based on that. According to that, people can be classified into twelve categories…
Intellectual Property
A blog post earlier this month on Econlog finished off with a very strong quote by Friedrich Hayek: One of the forms of private property that people cherish most is their ideas. If you convince them that their ideas are wrong, you have caused them to suffer a capital loss. I ended up liking it…