The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life — LessWrong
The "tails coming apart" is a phenomenon where two variables can be highly correlated overall, but at extreme values they diverge. Scott Alexander ex…
x The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2018 Probability & Statistics World Modeling Frontpage 181 The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life by Scott Alexander 25th Sep 2018 SSC 8 min read 39 181 [Epistemic status: Pretty good, but I make no claim this is original] A neglected gem from Less Wrong: Why The Tails Come Apart , by commenter Thrasymachus. It explains why even when two variables are strongly correlated, the most extreme value of one will rarely be the most extreme value of the other. Take these graphs of grip strength vs. arm strength and readin
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