Quote of the Day - Mount Everest (03/27/2025)

“This kind of controlling for problematic variables error is sometimes called the Mount Everest regression fallacy (a few others have named other Everest fallacies unrelated to this). Mount Everest is not cold (controlling for altitude). This idea has been mentioned a few times (seems to be from Garett Jones), but no one seems to have empirically shown that it is true.”

- Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, “Mount Everest is not cold (controlling for altitude and latitude)”