Quotes About Correlation

In 1900, Europe accounted for a quarter of the world's population. By 2060, it may account for just 6%—and almost a third of these will be more than 65 years old." Europe does face severe demographic problems, but the size of a population is not highly correlated with power, and "predictions of Europe's downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.

Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

A coisa mais misericordiosa do mundo é, segundo penso, a incapacidade da mente humana em correlacionar tudo o que sabe. Vivemos em uma plácida ilha de ignorância em meio a mares negros de infinitude, e não fomos feitos para ir longe.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

the impersonal and the personal are always connected.

When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.

We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.

but Republicans have decided there is a direct correlation between the size of a patriotic heart and the size of the defense budget.

Although the role categories are interrelated, each has its

Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb. Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

overrate it in the sense that they often control for many more variables than they need to and even for variables that they should not

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

We find, counterintuitively, that a small population correlates with shorter humans, and a larger population correlates with taller humans. This only makes sense in light of the FSM theory of gravity. With more people on earth today, there are fewer Noodly Appendages to go around, so we each receive less touching—pushing down toward the earth—and thus, with less force downward, we're taller.

We find, counter-intuitively, that a small population correlates with shorter humans, and a larger population correlates with taller humans.2 This only makes sense in light of the FSM theory of gravity. With more people on earth today, there are fewer Noodly Appendages to go around, so we each receive less touching—pushing down toward the earth—and thus, with less force downward, we're taller.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

You, me---we're not the same, but we---our lives---somehow fit together.

I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

No partnership, for that matter, would have hired me, or anyone remotely like me. Was there ever any correlation between an ability to get into, and out of, Princeton, and a talent for taking financial risk?   At

to find the phenomenon and then explain it in a way that applies to other situations

There may or may not be a correlation between the beautiful and the good, but there probably is one between beauty and health. (Which, I suppose, in Darwinian terms, is the good.)