Quotes About Correlation

H. P. Lovecraft wrote that the most merciful thing about the human mind is its inability to correlate all its contents,

Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should be another 'paired' metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.

Are You Over-Correlated?

everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative.

based on a single variable! Every single line on this graph

Researchers find that the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the last thirty years tracks the explosion of computers and tech gadgets in people's lives—and suspect this is no accidental correlation.

Everything, today, is to some extent the reflection of something else.

What's the Connection?

There must be some correlation," he said. "There has to be!

It has never been shown that "high self-esteem" is a good trait for students to possess. Meanwhile, researchers have uncovered a worrisome correlation between inflated self-esteem and juvenile delinquency. As Brad Bushman, an Iowa State University psychologist, explains, "If kids develop unrealistic opinions of themselves and those views are rejected by others, the kids are potentially dangerous.

This same finding also occurs in less economically developed nations, such as Brazil, India, Nigeria, and the Philippines. 14 For example, in Poland the ratings correlated .93 from 1957 to 1975, and .94 from 1975 to 1987. 15 But there are problems with

Consequences are that heavy TV viewers trust other people less, and join fewer voluntary organizations, than do people who are not heavy TV viewers. Before blaming TV-viewing for those behaviors, one might object: which is the cause and which is the result, or are the two sets of phenomena just correlated without either being the cause of the other?

What history does prove is that how risky stocks seem, and how risky they actually are, are inversely correlated.

Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.

Years of experience: People who had ten years of experience did not outperform those with two years of experience. There was no correlation between experience and performance except that those with less than six months' experience with the language used in the exercise did not do as well as the rest of the sample.

No correlation exists between sugar and nutritional benefit. Its presence in food assures the tongue that energy and protein reside within, but sweet foods deliver a benign-tasting venom. A crowning irony of the sugar-slave symbiosis was that it was not fatal just to Africans; it could also be fatal to their masters.

something always leads to something else.

Something always leads to something else. - John Puller

We are, at our core, information pack rats and inveterate correlators.

Models of leader attributes that dominated in the early part of the 20th century emphasized leader traits. Several surveys and reviews of this literature identified a number of dispositional qualities that distinguished leaders from nonleaders, including intelligence, originality, dependability, initiative, desire to excel, sociability, adaptability, extroversion, and dominance. However, no single personal quality was strongly and consistently correlated with leadership.

post hoc, propter hoc

Money does not guarantee excellence. Although university salaries and faculty quality are correlated, the correlation is far from perfect.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Two facts related by time and place and not necessarily related by cause and effect.