GuessTheCorrelation.com

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A fun little game where you are given a scatter plot (without a regression line) and have to guess the linear correlation coefficient. If you're too far off, you lose a life. If you are close, you get a coin. If you are really close, you gain five coins and a life back.

http://guessthecorrelation.com/

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I thought this was going to be like an ink blot test with you having to identify the design without any lines connecting the dots. I've seen a few of those that are really cool. Without the lines, you can't see the horse (or whatever). Once they show you the lines, you can't not see the horse, even when they take the lines away.

Really interesting how our brains work. And mine doesn't do statistics.
 

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I don't even know what a linear correlation is, but I looked up a Math is Fun website that gave six samples of linear correlations. Then I got scores of 54, 51, and 109. All I know is that the narrower the cluster of dots that angles up to the right, the higher the score. Math is fun!
 

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Started off slow, but eventually figured out what I was doing & it got pretty addicting. 200 after a few tries.

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