Ran into this on Stats SE today. If there's a better forum for this, let me know.
See here.
If you were the OP in this situation, what would you have done?
FYI, this has nothing to do with me. I just happened to run into this on Reddit.
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Suppose we have data set  with  points. We want to perform a linear regression, but first we sort the  values and the  values independently of each other, forming data set  . Is there any meaningful interpretation of the regression on the new data set? Does this have a name?I imagine this is a silly question so I apologize, I'm not formally trained in stats. In my mind this completely destroys our data and the regression is meaningless. But my manager says he gets "better regressions most of the time" when he does this (here "better" means more predictive). I have a feeling he is deceiving himself. I showed him the examples by [two posters who answered the OP's question] and he remains staunch. He's becoming irritated and I'm becoming exhausted. I feel crestfallen. I want my work to mean something. I will probably begin looking for other jobs soon. |
If you were the OP in this situation, what would you have done?
FYI, this has nothing to do with me. I just happened to run into this on Reddit.
When the Manager Misuses Technical Concepts