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Tuesday, 16 September 2025

False Correlations?

False Correlations?


Although Big Data has existed before AI,subsequently and primarily Big Data from the internet has been used to train AI. This makes AI to emulate or display more intelligence.  But there is a drawback.
WIth sufficient data there will be coincidental correlations between totally unconnected measures.

 For example between 2013 and 2021 the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in the United States went up and down almost exactly with the electricity generated  in Yemen (Source: Spurious Correlations website.)
 

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