Quotes on Correlation

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice...They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

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.