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Correlation is not causation. -- Kenneth L. Woodward
Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'. -- Siri Hustvedt
Kumikirot ang tyan? Kumikirot ang ulo? Correlation? I therefore conclude na ang utak ay parang tyan, sumasakit kapag walang laman. -- Eros S. Atalia
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I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate? -- Demetri Martin
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. -- Gunnar Myrdal
Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment. -- Andrew Bird
There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money. -- Kesha
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter. -- Yakov Smirnoff
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. -- Carl Lewis
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. -- Michael Pollan
There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. -- Dennis Prager
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. -- Thomas Sowell
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. -- Bill Gates
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty. -- Cedric Richmond
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. -- Hans Eysenck
Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. -- Lois Capps
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. -- Steven Pinker
You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like. -- Mark Cuban
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. -- Steven Pinker
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community. -- Andrea Jung
I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured. -- Andy Stern
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities. -- Chuck Close
You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation. -- Marc Racicot
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen. -- Loretta Napoleoni
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized. -- Barry Ritholtz
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. -- Noam Chomsky
I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values. -- Norbert Leo Butz
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. -- Olivia Newton-John
If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened. -- Steve Forbes
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled. -- Paul Hawken
There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change. -- Andy Stanley
There is a great correlation between music and images. -- Graham Nash
There has always been a correlation between money and art. -- Simon de Pury
Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation. -- Waqas Bin Ehsan
There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion. -- Austin Scarlett
There's a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results. -- Joe Rogan
There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body. -- Linda Hamilton
Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle... -- Charlie Munger
The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge. -- Sam Altman
When the world changes, correlation goes away"¦ Causals are what endure. -- Geoffrey Nunberg
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. -- Susan Cain
There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime. -- J. C. Watts
Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking. -- Olafur Eliasson
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories. -- Simone Weil
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve. -- David Cottrell
It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts. -- Dan Brown
There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own. -- Barney Frank
There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. -- David Sedaris
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There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. -- Tim Ferriss
There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world. -- Woody Allen
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. -- Daniel Goleman
There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person. -- Erol Alkan
In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America. -- Noam Chomsky
There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it. -- Seth Godin
I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status. -- Moby
I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows. -- Garrett Camp
There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship -- Louie Giglio
Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation. -- Adam Richman
Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society. -- Rafael Cruz
[T]here is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels. -- Ayelet Waldman
...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever. -- Li Ka-shing
Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent. -- Dennis T. Avery
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero. -- Felix Frankfurter
While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage. -- Malcolm Turnbull
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking. -- John Cho
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you. -- Owen Wilson
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism. -- Vanna Bonta
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. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten. -- Thomas Sowell
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I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it. -- Laurie Foos
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There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes. -- Ray Dalio
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way. -- Vincent Bugliosi
A lot of people don't make the correlation between acting and modeling, they think of them as two separate things. But I really believe that a model is an actress. -- Michael Flutie
Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation. -- Martin Lindstrom
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving. -- Paul Simon
I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes. -- Tom Hodgkinson
A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable. -- Clayton Christensen
Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period. -- Po Bronson
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second. -- Stacy Schiff
To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team. -- David Niu
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress. -- Bergen Evans
The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality -- Abel Aganbegyan
It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel. -- Sean Stephenson
I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind. -- Jerry Uelsmann
What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives. -- Roy Davis
[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere. -- Julian Sanchez
Actors can make five movies a year. A director can make one movie, every two years. It's a whole different level of commitment and of sweat equity, and therefore there's a direct correlation to passion. -- Joseph McGinty Nichol

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