Quotes About Correlation

I am convinced that there exists a tradable security in the Western world that would be 100% correlated with the changes in temperature in Ulan Bator

You take past instances that corroborate your theories and you treat them as evidence.

when something is in relation to something else, that something else can be manipulated.

shows no evidence that raising the general level of education raises income at the level of a country.

Hence if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly modify unintentionally other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of correlation.

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

This distinction between correlation and causation is crucial to the proper interpretation of statistical results.

Regression analysis enables us to go one step further and "fit a line" that best describes a linear relationship between the two variables.

The challenge with any "before and after" kind of analysis is that just because one thing follows another does not mean that there is a causal relationship between the two.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

Could the two constructs – psychopathy and utilitarianism – possibly be linked? Bartels and Pizarro wondered. The answer was a resounding yes. Their analysis revealed a significant correlation between a utilitarian approach to the trolley problem (push the fat guy off the bridge) and a predominantly psychopathic personality style.

Figure 7.2. The relationship between psychopathic and spiritual traits

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

Among children who grew up in affluent families, the heritability was about 60 percent. But twins from poorer families showed no greater correlation than other siblings. Their heritability was close to zero.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems. The

Love and truth have no correlation.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business.

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

It's important to understand that bonds and bond funds have a low correlation (they don't always move in the same direction at the same time) to stocks, so bonds can be a stabilizing force for a portion of your portfolio.

With my near-total recall and my ability to correlate, I can assess a situation immediately, and choose the best course of action for my purposes; I'm never indecisive. Only theoretical topics pose a challenge.

Every bit of knowledge we have demonstrates that there is a complete correlation between playing sports and success and potential for success. Playing sports is good for you physically, mentally, spiritually, psychologically.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.