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If you put enough junk variables in a regression equation, one of them is bound to meet the threshold for statistical significance just by chance.

Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data

Wheelan, Charles

Driving one hundred miles in a Nissan Altima results in the emission of 90.5 pounds of greenhouse gases. Driving the same distance in an all-electric Nissan Leaf emits 63.6 pounds of greenhouse gases-a significant improvement. But while the Altima driver pays fourteen cents a mile for fuel, the Leaf driver pays less than three cents per mile, and this difference, thanks to the law of supply and demand, causes the Leaf driver to drive more.

Walkable City

Jeff Speck

In 2019, fourteen years after Shoup’s book came out, ITE president Bruce Belmore renounced the idea of mandatory parking minimums in a preface to the organization’s monthly journal.

Paved Paradise

Henry Grabar

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