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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Regression to the Mean

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss regression to the mean, a phenomenon that occurs when a random sampling point is an outlier -- with applications to everything from economics and sports to health, religion and disappointing sequels.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I'm Joe McCormick.

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And in today's episode, we are going to be focusing on a topic that is already something that's very well known to people who are familiar with quantitative research and statistics, but less known to the general public.

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