Correlation is a vanity metric
Author: Dr. Jack GillettAdapted from a talk given at UCL London Correlation is a vanity metric – here I’m taking the phrase ‘vanity metric’ from Eric Ries’s excellent book ‘The Lean Startup’. In his words, ‘vanity metrics’ are metrics that “sound good, are easily manipulated, and [not without a touch of irony here…] do not necessarily correlate with the numbers… Read More »Correlation is a vanity metric