Correlation of 1 . . . too good to be true?

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-03-15

Summary:

Alex Hoffman points me to this interview by Dylan Matthews of education researcher Thomas Kane, who at one point says, Once you corrected for measurement error, a teacher’s score on their chosen videos and on their unchosen videos were correlated at 1. They were perfectly correlated. Hoffman asks, “What do you think? Do you think [...]

Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/25/correlation-of-1-too-good-to-be-true/

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Tags:

multilevel modeling

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 12:48

Date published:

02/25/2013, 09:38