Quotes About Correlation

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm the audience feels when seeing the movie.

My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations.

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

physical evidence linking

Anyway, the same words can be found in both books, which makes sense because they're written by the same author.

For our purposes an inversion occurs when seemingly unrelated, even disparate starting points converge and reinforce each other.

There is no fire without some smoke.

Indeed, in a 2007 study of humans, German researchers found that people learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise, and that the rate of learning correlated directly with levels of BDNF. Along with that, people with a gene variation that robs them of BDNF are more likely to have learning deficiencies.

Finding a historical correlation between gold and silver prices is no more convincing than finding a historical correlation between marriage and beer consumption. All it demonstrates is that we looked long enough to find a correlation.

Wealth correlates with certain forms of freedom, like the freedom to acquire goods, or to travel, or freedom of access to certain cultural events, and so on.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

You look at the skills involved, especially with things like lateral movement or change of direction, and there's definitely a strong correlation between playing basketball and playing tight end.

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.

post hoc ergo propter hoc…after this, therefore because of this.

increased solar activity was correlated with religious impulses in humans.

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

The top three variables on the "what traits do mate pairs most match up on" list are drinking, religion, and … drum roll … politics. (Education level is fourth.)

The facts of two things being often found together is rather a reason for, than an objection to, separating them, in idea. Sometimes they are NOT found together, and then we may be puzzled if we have not trained ourselves to separate them.

I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.