Quotes About Correlation

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

are not truly real in the consciousness of human experience until they are unraveled and correlated, until their relevant facts actually become meaning through encircuitment in the thought streams of mind.

Body weight was found to have a statistically moderate effect on total race time, while body-fat percentage had a large effect on total race time and a moderate effect (bordering on large) on swim, bike, and run splits. Both body weight and body-fat percentage were more strongly correlated with split times and total race time than are training variables such as average weekly training time.

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer. . . . Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.

But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.

Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our soul: prayer gives truth to our mind, goodness to our will, and beauty to our heart . 'The true, the good, and the beautiful' are the three things we need and love the most, because they are the three attributes of God.

when we compare these types of nations, we see that the religiosity/secularity correlation holds true the world over: the poorer, more chaotic, more troubled countries tend to be among the most religious, while the wealthier, more stable, more well-functioning countries tend to be among the most secular.

The meaning of one thing is its connection with another;

The meaning of something is its connection to something else

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy. … They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

researchers have found that extraversion has "no statistically significant relationship . . . with sales performance

Across the thirty-five studies, the correlation between extraversion and sales performance was a minuscule 0.07.)

To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.

Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.