The importance of making testable predictions: A cautionary tale.

We found a startling correlation (Pearson ρ > 0.97) between a single event in daily sea surface temperatures each spring, and peak fish egg abundance measurements the following summer, in 7 years of approximately weekly fish egg abundance data collected at Scripps Pier in La Jolla California. Eve...

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Main Authors: Emma S Choi, Erik Saberski, Tom Lorimer, Cameron Smith, Unduwap Kandage-Don, Ronald S Burton, George Sugihara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236541