The author's argument for this post is rather poor. He states that the raw data plot is noisy and weakly correlated, thus no relationship can be drawn by averaging the data into sets of buckets.
While the author is correct in that averaging hides the variance of data, he does not try to answer the question of "Can a trend be found from noisy data?" or show other accepted statistical methods that show no correlation in the data.
Instead the author dismisses the report from Gates through name calling: "It seems like the point of this ‘research’ is to simply ‘prove’ that Gates was right about what he expected to be true. "
While the author is correct in that averaging hides the variance of data, he does not try to answer the question of "Can a trend be found from noisy data?" or show other accepted statistical methods that show no correlation in the data.
Instead the author dismisses the report from Gates through name calling: "It seems like the point of this ‘research’ is to simply ‘prove’ that Gates was right about what he expected to be true. "