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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoked You sure

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Brought to you by the gym where you could burn

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three hundred calories on the treadmill and then order a

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four hundred calorie protein shake in the smoothie bar of

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progress All right in a perfect world we would be

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able to do is little work as possible and still

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get awesome results if we draw a scatter plot of

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the relationship between the number of hours we spend at

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the gym in our cardiovascular health we'd love it if

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our linear correlation coefficient were what and hear the potential

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answers All right here It would be nice if you

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could totally understand all these concepts that watching a single

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one of our videos Well sadly we don't live in

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that world You're gonna have to put up with the

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work It's okay though uh feels good when your brain

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sweats Just be sure your wife down your skull all

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right She was questions asking about linear correlation coefficient that

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our stuff it wants to know what number we'd ideally

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be looking for if we wantto barely break a sweat

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while we're getting our ticker into tiptop shape But really

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this is just about knowing what a linear correlation coefficient

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tells us All right Well if it's a positive number

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we need to know that there's a positive correlation and

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if it's a negative number we should know that the

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correlations negative so far so easy Well we want the

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most game by putting in the least effort so we're

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looking for a negative correlation So his showers options a

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b and e it comes down to other r equals

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negative one are our equals negative point three and we

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can't really see how it could be the second one

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Usually when dealing with perfect or ideal anything in mathematics

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it's all or nothing it's gonna come out the one

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zero or negative one and never seem totally random number

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like negative point three plus the correlation coefficient of negative

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point three isn't the most reliable things Sure sometimes that'll

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work in our favor and less effort will lead to

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better help But sometimes a data point oh jiggle away

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from that perfect linear downward trend and we'd actually be

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healthier if we exercise a little more so yeah no

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thanks Anyway the answer is c honestly as good as

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it sounds wouldn't we miss the sense of accomplishment that

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comes from working hard in achieving our goals Wait trade

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all that in for a second in an ice cream

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