Originally Posted in 2018:
Groundhog Day - Maayu was looking forward to Groundhog not seeing his shadow, but it turned out to be other way. Though dejected, Maayu knew that Groundhog prediction was not right last year.
1. What is Groundhog Day?
On every February 2nd in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil, a Groundhog would help in forecasting the severity of the winter.
2. What is the legend?
If Phil were to see his own shadow, then the winter is expected to be severe, and would last for six more weeks. If not, then the winter is expected to be milder.
3. What is the history?
The Groundhog day happens to be the midpoint (middle of astronomical winter) between winter solstice and spring equinox.
If the day happens to be sunny, then the latter 8 weeks is expected to be cold and severe, whereas, if cloudy then the spring is expected to come sooner.
4. When did this start in Punxsutawney?
Clymer H. Freas, a local newspaper editor started this tradition in 1887, and called the local group as Punxsutawney Groundhog club.
Over time, other newspapers picked up, and made it a famous and regular event.
5. How accurate is the prediction of Groundhog?
Groundhog has seen shadow in 103 years since 1887 and no shadow for 18 years with no record for 10 more years.
Groundhog was found to be accurate ~39% of the times, but the accuracy increased to 47% when Groundhog did not see his shadow.
6. What else could we decipher based on the information available? (Inferential Analytics - New from our side)
- Groundhog data appears to be biased to shadow
- During the last thirty years, Groundhog has not seen the shadow during 9 years, though only 30%, that happens to be 50% of all (18) of 120 years of recorded information when Phil did not see the shadow (Does it have to do with climate changes.?)
- Percentage of spring coming sooner is well above the toss of a coin during the 120 years since Phil started predicting the severity of winter (Could be connected to the method of determining early spring)
References:
- http://www.stormfax.com/ghogday.htm
- https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/customer-support/education-resources/groundhog-day (Updated Feb 15, 2024 - Not Available any more)
- NOAA Groundhog Day (Added new on Feb 15, 2024)
- http://www.researchhistory.org/2012/02/02/feb-2-1887-first-groundhog-day/
- Groundhog Day I
- Groundhog Day II
- Hypothesis Testing
Hypothesis Testing - What is it?
Hypothesis Testing - What is it?
What was the null hypothesis in this example of Groundhog Day?
Without
using significant figures, just by first hand look at the data, could
we change the hypothesis to alternative hypothesis?
Note: To our
knowledge, no one put forth this question on changing null to
alternative based on data before, though rational thinking would do so
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(Updated on Feb 16, 2024) By the way, Maiyaa asked the question if we were to see the shadow, it means that it is a sunny day. Then, should the winter be shorter? This question sparked us to start looking into the data in detail, which further led us to ask the above question on "Hypothesis Testing" and develop a new "ShadowShoot" series.
