Fitted lines are useful as first order approximations, but it’s often useful to look a little deeper. In the process of exploring a paper’s time trends, I found an unexpected data processing issue.
Like many programmers, I’ve had fun writing code to explore optimal guessing strategies for the online game Wordle. How many guesses are needed for any starting word?
How reproducible are studies with shared data? I collect one more data point in a quest for the answer, and make a side exploration into a linear regression conundrum.