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^{Show image generation prompt} Model: dalle-3
Prompt: Generate an image of a virtual landscape resembling a bustling digital cityscape, filled with towering social media platforms and digital billboards. Amidst the sea of posts, photos, and videos, keen-eyed individuals are drawn to glowing, thought-provoking content emanating from prominent entities resembling "SmarterEveryDay." The landscape is bathed in a vibrant, mesmerizing glow as users gravitate towards these illuminating beacons, seeking mental nourishment and meaningful engagement amidst the ever-changing digital environment. The depiction should include only scenes, people, and objects, it should not include text or speech bubbles.

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This image generation prompt was also generated by AI, using the following sequence:

Model: gpt-3.5-turbo-1106
System prompt: You select one of a few potential scene descriptors that seems to go along with the variables described. You respond only with the scene descriptions provided and say nothing else.
User prompt: Here are two variables: How insightful SmarterEveryDay YouTube video titles are and Percentage of Americans with social media profiles. Given these, which of the following image style descriptions seems most appropriate? Pick the one that seems to be related to one of the variables at hand. Please respond with only one of the following potential descriptions: An image that looks like it is a scene from 'Star Wars' A TIME magazine cover image Low poly Brutalism Magic realism
ChatGPT: A TIME magazine cover image

Model: gpt-3.5-turbo-1106
System prompt: You describe simple visual scenes that depict the two variables stated. You combine both variables into one scene.
User prompt: Please describe a visual scene that prominently depicts both How insightful SmarterEveryDay YouTube video titles are and Percentage of Americans with social media profiles, in the following situation: As the Percentage of Americans with social media profiles increases, there is a corresponding rise in the online demand for intellectually stimulating content. This prompts content creators, such as SmarterEveryDay, to adapt their video titles to cater to the expanding audience seeking mental nourishment amidst the sea of selfies and memes. This in turn leads to an increase in How insightful SmarterEveryDay YouTube video titles, as they strategically align with the cognitive cravings of the online populace, creating a virtual cycle of enlightenment in the digital realm. In reality, this correlation is likely coincidental, as there is no direct causal link between the two. The increase in the Percentage of Americans with social media profiles and the perceived insightfulness of SmarterEveryDay video titles are probably independent of each other, influenced by different societal and digital media factors.. Keep the description simple.
ChatGPT: In a bustling digital landscape, as more Americans join social media, a wave of curiosity and longing for intellectual stimulation sweeps through the online community. Among the myriad content flooding the platforms, the titles of SmarterEveryDay's YouTube videos stand out, appearing increasingly insightful. This interplay reflects the evolving demand for enlightening content, with a myriad of users seeking mental nourishment amidst the endless stream of selfies and memes.

Model: gpt-3.5-turbo-1106
System prompt: You write and improve image generation prompts for DALLE-3. You maintain the same subjects, but enhance the visuals.
User prompt: Please respond with an image generation prompt that would be likely to create an interesting visual using DALLE-3, using the following style: [ A TIME magazine cover image ] and depicting this scene: In a bustling digital landscape, as more Americans join social media, a wave of curiosity and longing for intellectual stimulation sweeps through the online community. Among the myriad content flooding the platforms, the titles of SmarterEveryDay's YouTube videos stand out, appearing increasingly insightful. This interplay reflects the evolving demand for enlightening content, with a myriad of users seeking mental nourishment amidst the endless stream of selfies and memes. Keep the visual depiction simple. Do not include any words or speech bubbles.
ChatGPT: Generate an image of a virtual landscape resembling a bustling digital cityscape, filled with towering social media platforms and digital billboards. Amidst the sea of posts, photos, and videos, keen-eyed individuals are drawn to glowing, thought-provoking content emanating from prominent entities resembling "SmarterEveryDay." The landscape is bathed in a vibrant, mesmerizing glow as users gravitate towards these illuminating beacons, seeking mental nourishment and meaningful engagement amidst the ever-changing digital environment.

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*Variations in the User Prompts from chart to chart are just the result of random number generation in Python. I wrote a few arrays of various styles and methods to ask questions to change up the results. Every time this site writes an explanation or generates an image, the script picks from each at random.

I sequence the requests into multiple prompts because I find GPT 3.5 to perform much better with short, well-managed contexts. Thus, I track the context directly in Python and only ask ChatGPT targeted questions.

AI academic paper

Can Smart YouTube Titles Predict Social Media Use? An Analytical Approach Journal of Media Analytics and Social Behavior Jan 2024 Reminder: This paper is AI-generated. Not real!

Problem variable:	Which variable has a problem? How insightful SmarterEveryDay YouTube video titles are Percentage of Americans with social media profiles 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 25,237 variables in my database. I compare all these variables against each other to find ones that randomly match up. That's 636,906,169 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.
4. Y-axis doesn't start at zero: I truncated the Y-axes of the graph above. I also used a line graph, which makes the visual connection stand out more than it deserves. ^Note Nothing against line graphs. They are great at telling a story when you have linear data! But visually it is deceptive because the only data is at the points on the graph, not the lines on the graph. In between each point, the data could have been doing anything. Like going for a random walk by itself!
   Mathematically what I showed is true, but it is intentionally misleading. Below is the same chart but with both Y-axes starting at zero.

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([5.95,5.875,6.25,6.75,7.4,7.5882,7.381,7.619,8.0588,7.8095,7.9565,7.8636,7.8,7.7778,])
array_2 = np.array([24,34,48,53,57,63,66,70,77,80,77,79,80,82,])
array_1_name = "How insightful SmarterEveryDay YouTube video titles are"
array_2_name = "Percentage of Americans with social media profiles"

# 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 How insightful SmarterEveryDay YouTube video titles are
• Line chart for only Percentage of Americans with social media profiles
• AI-generated correlation image
• The spurious research paper: Can Smart YouTube Titles Predict Social Media Use? An Analytical Approach