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by MrL567 2180 days ago
Telling every time someone posts a bad regression they never post the R^2.
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You might find this article insightful as to the utility of R-squared – "Is R-squared Useless?"

https://data.library.virginia.edu/is-r-squared-useless/

If only. Sometimes they smooth or bin the data points and then post r2!
Reminds me about the classic regression excel joke saying that to get a better regression, one should sort the points to be in order first.