Quotes About Correlation

What I wanted to have happen was that people who didn't know that Game Boy Advance and GBA are the same thing would remember Wii right away because it doesn't need to be abbreviated.

There appears to be a correlation between secure attachment and beliefs that are centrist.

What is the Spanish word for wife? Esposa. What is the Spanish word for handcuffs? Esposas. That's not a coincidence.

There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.

something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ...that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality," ...and thinks He moved the finger

Ultimately, all science is correlation. No matter how effectively it may use one variable to describe another, its equations will always ultimately rest upon the surface of a black box. (Saint Herbert might have put it most succinctly when he observed that all proofs inevitably reduce to propositions that have no proof.)

So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight.

A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'

B. A." Here you can infer B, no matter which

The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.

the time spent on social media was negatively correlated with the amount of money in one's bank account and positively correlated with the amount of body fat on one's person

Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.

Generally, there's a correlation between good work and good reviews. In the very odd, very rare case that they say it's terrible, but actually you're a genius who is ahead of your time, you are going to just have to suffer.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

The parts of a sentence which are most closely connected with one another in meaning should be closely connected in order also.

It just so happened that they agreed on politics and religion. It was precisely that agreement that has caused most observers to associate them with one another.

Actually although they can be connected, the two are very different things. Vine's

There is good reason to believe that general intelligence is likely to be associated with better judgment. Intelligence is correlated with good performance in virtually all domains. All other things being equal, it is associated not only with higher academic achievement but also with higher job performance.

correlation and regression are not two concepts—they are different perspectives on the same concept. The general rule is straightforward but has surprising consequences: whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.

A correlation of .30 implies that you would find the stronger CEO leading the stronger firm in about 60% of the pairs—an improvement of a mere 10 percentage points over random guessing, hardly grist for the hero worship of CEOs we so often witness.

However, the magic of error reduction works well only when the observations are independent and their errors uncorrelated. If the observers share a bias, the aggregation of judgments will not reduce it. Allowing the observers to influence each other effectively reduces the size of the sample, and with it the precision of the group estimate.

whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.

Researchers have applied diverse methods to examine the connection between thinking and self-control. Some have addressed it by asking the correlation question: If people were ranked by their self-control and by their cognitive aptitude, would individuals have similar positions in the two rankings?

regression inevitably occurs when the correlation between two measures is less than perfect