Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

When Tyler Vigen was finishing law school a few years ago, he went on a search for identical twins—not in the real world but in data sets. So he would find a study like this: And then keep searching ...

AI models often rely on 'spurious correlations,' making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...