We watch for correlation between life experience and results in the real world.
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As I researched, I was looking for a correlation between those who rely on student fees and football profit.
While longer talking time corresponded to more power for male senators, it appeared to have only a neutral correlation for female senators, she says.
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It's likely that in proposing home cooking as a solution for obesity, Wartman is committing the cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, or mistaking correlation for causation.
For now the correlation between test results and course performance is .45 (roughly the same as between SAT scores and college GPA).
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The overall correlation we arrived at between pay level and job satisfaction was just .15. (For comparison, the correlation between typical human height and weight is .44, and the correlation between IQ scores in identical twins is .86.) This suggests that within an organization, those who make more money are barely more satisfied than those who make much less.
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The research comes from Responsys, AKA the company I work for, and reveals some very interesting and intriguing findings and shows a clear correlation and opportunity for mobile marketing folks.
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Ultimately, investors have no one to blame but themselves for the spike in correlation.
The growth of exchange-traded funds is a much better explanation for the spike in correlation.
Between the years 2006-2009, for example, the correlation between the Canadian dollar and oil prices was approximately 80%.
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For example, the correlation between average pairs of stocks more than tripled between 2007 and 2010 and the correlation between categories more than doubled during that time period.
But Statistics for Education found a positive correlation of 0.12 between books and good results.
One way for investors to mitigate high correlation, RBC argues, is concentrating the number of stocks in a portfolio and sacrificing the potential cost of somewhat higher return variance.
Correlation seems enough for them most of the time.
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According to Jeff Hirsch, whose father, Yale Hirsch, invented the barometer in 1972, the positive correlation between performance for January and the whole year has failed only seven times, including in 2009 and 2010.
Those who are concerned about the deleterious effect of spiralling executive pay in the City are given ammunition in the form of a study by Obermatt, a consultancy, which shows there is no correlation between pay for senior executives and stock performance on the FTSE 100.
They would charge extra for drivers living in accident-heavy urban areas, for homeowners who insist on building in the path of hurricanes, for deadbeats (turns out there's a correlation between low credit scores and accident-proneness) and for teenage boys.
The chart does not show too much of an inverse correlation, except maybe for the early 1980s.
The Dartmouth Atlas folks are famous for arguing that there is no correlation between the quantity of care delivered and patient outcomes.
For there is a very close correlation between where there is artificial light and the places where people get to live rich, rewarding and enjoyable lives.
The formula for economic flourishing simply demands a close correlation between effort and reward.
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Copper is often considered a bellwether for the economy due to its close correlation to global economic growth.
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In financials, where correlation of performance is high for the properties with major weightings, painting with a broad brush works better.
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Likewise, evaluating applicants based on whether they had held multiple jobs for less than six months has no correlation to job tenure or performance.
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Most people are looking for a diversifier, something with low correlation.
For the time periods we can observe, we find that the intra-portfolio correlation is, by and large, less the longer the period of time for which we have observations.
As for women, there seems to be no correlation between face size and behavior.
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The weaker dollar-stronger gold correlation has come back into favor for whatever reason now.
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According to Mr Esteve's figures, the correlation is roughly one international marriage for every two new migrants.
Indeed there is a strong correlation between relative wages and opportunities for externalizing costs in a society.
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