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AI explanation

^{Show image generation prompt} Create a meme inspired by the not sure if meme that in some way references Total views on Numberphile YouTube videos. Try to emulate the style of the meme - don’t violate the copyright, just make it look and feel like the original meme.

AI academic paper

Crunching Numbers and Memes: An Examination of the Relationship Between Total Views on Numberphile YouTube Videos and the Popularity of the 'Not Sure If' Meme The Journal of Internet Culture and Quantitative Analysis Jan 2024 Reminder: This paper is AI-generated. Not real!

Problem variable:	Which variable has a problem? Total views on Numberphile YouTube videos Popularity of the 'not sure if' meme Neither / both
Issue:	What is the issue? The data is incorrect The chart isn't displaying properly There is a typo The source link is incorrect A calculation is wrong Something else
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Data details

Why this works

1. Data dredging: I have 25,153 variables in my database. I compare all these variables against each other to find ones that randomly match up. That's 632,673,409 correlation calculations! This is called “data dredging.” Instead of starting with a hypothesis and testing it, I instead abused the data to see what correlations shake out. It’s a dangerous way to go about analysis, because any sufficiently large dataset will yield strong correlations completely at random.
2. Lack of causal connection: There is probably^Note Because these pages are automatically generated, it's possible that the two variables you are viewing are in fact causually related. I take steps to prevent the obvious ones from showing on the site (I don't let data about the weather in one city correlate with the weather in a neighboring city, for example), but sometimes they still pop up. If they are related, cool! You found a loophole.
   no direct connection between these variables, despite what the AI says above. This is exacerbated by the fact that I used "Years" as the base variable. Lots of things happen in a year that are not related to each other! Most studies would use something like "one person" in stead of "one year" to be the "thing" studied.
3. Observations not independent: For many variables, sequential years are not independent of each other. If a population of people is continuously doing something every day, there is no reason to think they would suddenly change how they are doing that thing on January 1. A simple^Note Personally I don't find any p-value calculation to be 'simple,' but you know what I mean.
   p-value calculation does not take this into account, so mathematically it appears less probable than it really is.

Try it yourself

# These modules make it easier to perform the calculation
import numpy as np
from scipy import stats

# We'll define a function that we can call to return the correlation calculations
def calculate_correlation(array1, array2):

    # Calculate Pearson correlation coefficient and p-value
    correlation, p_value = stats.pearsonr(array1, array2)

    # Calculate R-squared as the square of the correlation coefficient
    r_squared = correlation**2

    return correlation, r_squared, p_value

# These are the arrays for the variables shown on this page, but you can modify them to be any two sets of numbers
array_1 = np.array([19858300,105901000,103956000,95837600,83512600,70235300,53161800,32896000,31975800,19612200,16242400,13699100,7781810,])
array_2 = np.array([19.6,77.75,65.75,48.5833,50.3333,41.5,30.5833,20.5,13.5,8.66667,6.45455,6.16667,5,])
array_1_name = "Total views on Numberphile YouTube videos"
array_2_name = "Popularity of the 'not sure if' meme"

# Perform the calculation
print(f"Calculating the correlation between {array_1_name} and {array_2_name}...")
correlation, r_squared, p_value = calculate_correlation(array_1, array_2)

# Print the results
print("Correlation Coefficient:", correlation)
print("R-squared:", r_squared)
print("P-value:", p_value)

Reuseable content

• High resolution line chart ^Note The image linked here is a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG). It is the highest resolution that is possible to achieve. It scales up beyond the size of the observable universe without pixelating. You do not need to email me asking if I have a higher resolution image. I do not. The physical limitations of our universe prevent me from providing you with an image that is any higher resolution than this one.
  
  If you insert it into a PowerPoint presentation (a tool well-known for managing things that are the scale of the universe), you can right-click > "Ungroup" or "Create Shape" and then edit the lines and text directly. You can also change the colors this way.
  
  Alternatively you can use a tool like Inkscape.
  
• High resolution line chart, optimized for mobile
• Alternative high resolution line chart
• Scatterplot
• Portable line chart (png)
• Portable line chart (png), optimized for mobile
• Line chart for only Total views on Numberphile YouTube videos
• Line chart for only Popularity of the 'not sure if' meme
• AI-generated correlation image
• The spurious research paper: Crunching Numbers and Memes: An Examination of the Relationship Between Total Views on Numberphile YouTube Videos and the Popularity of the 'Not Sure If' Meme