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library(tidyverse) | |
set.seed(1) | |
df <- tibble(x=rnorm(2000), | |
y=rnorm(2000)) %>% | |
mutate(flag = x+y > 1.5) | |
df %>% | |
ggplot() + | |
aes(x=x, y=y) + | |
geom_point() + | |
theme_minimal() + | |
coord_equal() + | |
labs(title="Consider a population where beauty and talent are uncorrelated.", | |
x="Beauty", | |
y="Talent") | |
ggsave("1.pdf", width=8, height=5, dpi=500, units = "in") | |
df %>% | |
ggplot() + | |
aes(x=x, y=y) + | |
geom_point() + | |
geom_smooth(method="lm") + | |
theme_minimal() + | |
coord_equal() + | |
labs(title="Consider a population where beauty and talent are uncorrelated.\nWe see that the regression line is flat.", | |
x="Beauty", | |
y="Talent") | |
ggsave("2.pdf", width=8, height=5, dpi=500, units = "in") | |
df %>% | |
ggplot() + | |
aes(x=x, y=y) + | |
geom_point() + | |
geom_abline(mapping=aes(intercept=1.5, slope=-1), linetype=2, color="grey", size=1) + | |
theme_minimal() + | |
coord_equal() + | |
labs(title="Now consider that someone is famous if their talent + beauty exceeds a certain threshold.", | |
x="Beauty", | |
y="Talent") | |
ggsave("3.pdf", width=8, height=5, dpi=500, units = "in") | |
df %>% | |
ggplot() + | |
aes(x=x, y=y) + | |
geom_point() + | |
geom_abline(mapping=aes(intercept=1.5, slope=-1), linetype=2, color="grey", size=1) + | |
geom_point(mapping=aes(x=x, y=y), data=df %>% filter(flag==TRUE), color="red") + | |
theme_minimal() + | |
coord_equal() + | |
labs(title="Now consider that someone is famous if their talent + beauty exceeds a certain threshold.\nThose colored in red are famous, according to this criterion.", | |
x="Beauty", | |
y="Talent") | |
ggsave("4.pdf", width=8, height=5, dpi=500, units = "in") | |
df %>% | |
ggplot() + | |
aes(x=x, y=y) + | |
geom_point() + | |
geom_point(mapping=aes(x=x, y=y), data=df %>% filter(flag==TRUE), color="red") + | |
geom_smooth(mapping=aes(x=x, y=y), data=df %>% filter(flag==TRUE), method="lm") + | |
theme_minimal() + | |
coord_equal() + | |
labs(title="Conditioning on being famous, there is now a negative correlation between talent and beauty, \neven though there was no such correlation in the original population.", | |
x="Beauty", | |
y="Talent") | |
ggsave("5.pdf", width=8, height=5, dpi=500, units = "in") |
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