Correlation Quotes

• But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Baby, Home, Simple

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• Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Causes, Chance

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• Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Data, Reason Why, Bigs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results.

  Joe Rogan

  Mma, Positive Energy, Results

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• 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

  People, Trying, Statistics

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• There is a great correlation between music and images.

  Graham Nash

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• In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

  Bill Gates

  Educational, Color, Cities

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• 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

  Two, Errors, Religion

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Littles, Circumstances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

  Kesha

  Amount

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Childhood, Professional Athlete

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, Subsidies, Poverty

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

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Rate, Psychotherapy

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

  Lois Capps

  Strong, Nurse, Study

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• Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

  Randall Munroe

  Science, Eyebrows, Doe

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• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Rate, Psychotherapy

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places.

  Dana Spiotta

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Bible, Money

  "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.

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• Correlation is not causation.

  Kenneth L. Woodward

  Causation

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• There is a correlation between evil. There is a primary evil that comes directly from the Devil. Even though all evil stems from the Devil, the Devil sometimes interacts with people in the physical world and the spiritual world and sometimes there's just plain evil that people do to one another. And I've seen plenty of that over the course of 20 years.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Spiritual, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle.

  Charlie Munger

  Records, Causation

  Charlie Munger's comments on the decline of family-controlled businesses when family foundations take over at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupidity, Measurement, Given

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• If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Data, Association, Ends

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Theory of International Politics”, p.4, Waveland Press

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• 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

  Common Sense, Way, Life Is

  Vincent Bugliosi (1998). “No Island of Sanity: Paula Jones V. Bill Clinton : the Supreme Court on Trial”, Ballantine Books

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