Quotes About Correlation

innumerable studies have demonstrated that depression runs much higher in people who have low cholesterol.22

Idleness and idolatry aren't related but they ought to be.

The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means "two," and the word zweifel, which means "doubt"—suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives.

Smoke and fire go together always.

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

I think the number one stat that is a direct correlation on winning and losing is turnovers.

Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.

a curious result kept turning up: If the same group of people took two different mental tests, anyone who did well (or poorly) on one test tended to do similarly well (or poorly) on the other. In statistical terms, the scores on the two tests were positively correlated.

There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Well, as explained in the last section, non-local correlations transcend causality and also subvert our traditional notions of space and time. If two particles — or events, or Whatnots — have a non-local correlation, in modern quantum theory, this means that they will remain correlated even when no signal, no field, no mechanical push-or-pull, no energy, no cause of any sort can travel from one to the other.

C.H. Douglas presented a graph to the MacMillan Commission in 1932 showing that as the interest rate rises, the suicide rate rises; as the interest rate drops, the suicide rate drops. His graph was from 1812 to 1932. Psychologists who don't think about factors like that are ignoring the context of their own science.

Dr. Walker develops a mathematical model of this non-local Self and uses the model to derive predictions about how often the alleged psychokinesis of parapsychologists can occur. His results correlate with the scores made by persons very successful in psychokinesis experiments. In other words, people rated good at controlling the fall of dice, because they score above chance, score on the average only as far above chance at the non-local Hidden Variable model says they can.

Charlotte was coming to believe that arrogance was a quality not just correlated with but a manifestation of stupidity, a result of stupidity.

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.

But the most important finding of all is that happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.

Such questionnaires are used in order to correlate happiness with various objective factors. One

The human body can play music, kill germs, make a baby, recite poetry, and monitor the movement of stars all at the same time, because the field of infinite correlation is part of its information field.

If guns kill people," Ivy moved next to her uncle and stared down Kip, "Then pens misspell words, cars cause accidents, and forks make people gain weight.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

You were raised to think in patterns set by others. To be as successful as you want to be, it may take getting out of those traditional patterns. Most people don't get out of their comfort zone. Most people don't attain the level of success they set out to achieve. I wonder if there's any correlation between those two statements?