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(2009.Jul.11 01:46 PM)Accipender Wrote:  That means it doesnt 89% of the time. Sounds more like coincidence to me.

You miss understand what a correlation is ...

A correlation doesn't mean that 89% of the time it means absolutely nothing and 11% of the time its absolutely true.... its more like uhm...hard to explain

Example: Being obese has a (lets say) 30% correlation with eating too much. That just means that 30% of the problem as to why they are obese is that they eat too much on the average. Now is every obese person big because they eat too much? No, and are the ones that eat too much eat exactly 30% more then they should? No, but the correlation means that eating too much is 30% of the problem on the avg. (and no i have no idea what % eating too much has to do with being obese was just a number i guessed)