{"id":972,"date":"2017-03-28T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/28\/guess-the-correlation-a-game-about-data-perception\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:39:00","slug":"guess-the-correlation-a-game-about-data-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/28\/guess-the-correlation-a-game-about-data-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess The Correlation: A Game About Data Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGuess the Correlation\u201d is a human-based computation game that, while mildly entertaining, its main focus is on collecting information about how people perceive correlated data in scatterplots. The game asks players to guess how correlated two variables in a scatterplot are using the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC). The more accurate the guess, the better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The PCC measures the linear correlation between two variables, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Y<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, bounded by the values of +1 and -1. A positive linear correlation has a positive value, a negative linear correlation has a negative value, while 0 corresponds to data with no linear correlation (thanks, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pearson_correlation_coefficient\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualnews.com\/?attachment_id=145710\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-145710 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/visualnews-wp-media-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27222431\/correlations_examples.png\" alt=\"Guess the Correlation Data Examples\" width=\"870\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rules of the game are simple: if the player guesses within 0.05 of the true correlation they receive an extra life and 5 coins; if the player is within 0.10 of the true correlation they receive 1 coin; if they guess within over 0.10 \u00a0they lose a life. Because the game\u2019s main goal is to analyze data about correlation perception, the more people play, the more data is generated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every time a player guesses a correlation, the date, time, IP address, and data is automatically gathered and stored. The information collected is evaluated for statistical purposes and kept completely anonymous. If you want to help expand the stats, check out the game <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/guessthecorrelation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: Visual News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGuess the Correlation\u201d is a human-based computation game that, while mildly entertaining, its main focus is on collecting information about how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/03\/correlations_examples.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-fG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}