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by CGamesPlay 4204 days ago
The correlation doesn't seem particularly strong, but the dependent variable here isn't right. It's a stack ranking that's forced to a normal distribution. A normal distribution might be appropriate if they randomly selected US citizens to join the program, but they don't. Students self-select to apply and they reject the bottom 66% of applicants. The resulting talent profile is far from being normally distributed.