But what's interesting
about the correlations found here is that they suggest that, in certain environments, people exercise more as a matter of routine, without necessarily being deliberate about it.
Not exact matches
By now you'll no doubt see the obvious
correlations between them all as well, and the really interesting thing
about it all is that in each and every one of them, both the ones I have reported on here as well as others we are yet to review, the lessons we take from them are not to be
found in academic institutions.
If we have no direct extrabiblical confirmation of Abraham and Jacob, we
find, nevertheless, a remarkable
correlation between what is reflected in the stories
about their backgrounds and what we learn of life in the ancient Near East in the first half of the second millennium B.C.
The simplification of kinds of harmony into a simple
correlation is
found in a twentieth - century son of Pythagoras, whose thought
about harmony deserves exploration.
If there's causation in that
correlation, we're
about to
find out.
The new Pew Research survey
finds a strong
correlation between financial well - being and views
about the ideal work situation.
Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns
about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have
found a
correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.
The researchers compared egg shape with lots of data
about each bird species, but
found no
correlation with clutch size, environmental factors or nest characteristics.
So we sequenced a gene involved in cell growth and
found a
correlation in
about 85 percent of the patients: If you had a certain mutation in the EGFR gene, you responded to the drug; if you didn't have the mutation, you didn't.
However, they did
find a
correlation between the drop in birth rates and the number of Zika cases recorded
about 40 weeks earlier — the length of a pregnancy.
In all systems, whether pertaining to insects or mammals, they
found a strong positive
correlation between predator removal, plant community simplification, and reduced energy flow, which goes back to Paine's dictum
about being able to change the world by removing one species.
In a study of relationships between socioeconomic variables and opioid - related drug overdoses, researchers
found several
correlations that are often not discussed in the current conversation
about the nation's deaths of despair, which includes opioid overdoses, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.
The genetic data, which includes
about one million markers across the genome, is compared among individuals, among populations, and between current and ancestral populations to determine hidden patterns of relatedness, sort individuals into groups that share genetic characteristics, and
find correlations with genes of medical relevance.
«However, there is concern
about Cervigrams» overall effectiveness due to reports of poor
correlation between visual lesion recognition and high - grade disease, as well as disagreement among experts when grading visual
findings.»
But he is excited
about the potential for
finding unexpected
correlations.
«You're not even trying to draw conclusions
about causes — only attempting to
find associations or
correlations.»
They
found a very surprising
correlation: A given person, in 2006, eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was
about 2.3 points higher.
Walkabout is a deceptively simple tale
about lost children trying to
find their way home that slowly grows into a treatise against the continued expansion of industry, the domination of humanity over unbridled nature, and the
correlation between the savageries still inherent in so - called civilized society.
But, the second thing we
found was that the
correlation between a teacher's submitted lesson and their unsubmitted lessons was very high -
about.75, which is just saying that the best lessons from the best teachers are that much better than the best lessons from the weakest teachers.
In a study conducted by Kim et al. (2013), a positive
correlation was
found between teachers» pedagogical beliefs and their technology integration practices: «What teachers say they do was significantly correlated with both their beliefs
about effective ways of teaching and their actual practices with regard to technology integration» (p. 81).
I was reading
about a new book call «The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance» done by a Berkeley psychologist which
find the
correlation of drugging students as young as 3 with ADHD medicine at higher rates than the rest of the industrialized world and the increase in performance testing.
Indeed this is true, although the
correlations they observed, as aligned with what is increasingly becoming a saturated
finding in the literature (see similar
findings about the Marzano observational framework here; see similar
findings from other studies here, here, and here; see also other studies as cited by authors of this study on p. 13 - 14 here), is that the magnitude and practical significance of these
correlations are «very weak» (e.g., r =.18) to «moderate» (e.g., r =.45,.46, and.48).
After I posted
about «Observational Systems:
Correlations with Value - Added and Bias,» a blog follower, associate professor, and statistician named Laura Ring Kapitula (see also a very influential article she wrote on VAMs here) posted comments on this site that I
found of interest, and I thought would also be of interest to blog followers.
Here in Atlanta there is no shortage of Toyota / Lexus shops capable of great work Over the years we've noticed very little
correlation between a shop's ability to do great work and the overall work product of the shop Having the ability is only part of the equation Each technician has to want to do great work For this they have to love what they do In addition to being passionate
about our work we're also pretty passionate
about the brand we work on — believing that Toyota and Lexus make the most rugged dependable vehicles on the planet And while we don't expect every customer to share this level of passion for their Toyota or Lexus we have
found our customers to be a bit more discerning in how their vehicle is treated — whether it's here for an oil change or a frame - off restoration
The main inspiration for the tweaks comes from reading Rick Ferri's book All
About Asset Allocation — I finally
found a book that laid out the main aspects of portfolio selection in a thorough way, with enough graphs and
correlation coefficients to satisfy my inner mathematics geek.
In technical language, they have low
correlation, but I
find there's an easier way to think
about it.
In 2011, JPMorgan
found that the 250 biggest stocks on the S&P 500 had a
correlation of
about 0.81, whereas historically it was 0.3.
Have you read
about the 2014 studies that
found a
correlation between interactive play and a dogs well - being?
Yet, both artists
find a close
correlation on how they think
about and research their subject matter.
Like all of Wentworth's work, they are
about the combination of the desirable and the precarious, and to this extent, one can
find a
correlation between this show and the vanitas paintings of the 17th century which depicted objects that were loaded with symbolism linked to our human condition.
From the context it is clear that you are arguing that more CO2 leads to higher temperatures (you answered my earlier comment that I could
find no evidence that CO2 affected temperaturee in near term; I said nothing
about a lack of
correlation).
This code came
about while discussing Mann 08, which tests 1200 + series for a minimum
correlation to temps, and I
found the result surprising.
(A 2013 study in the journal Climatic Change
found a close
correlation between temperature extremes of the last three to twelve months and how people feel
about climate change.)
Both Lindzen and Spenser
find better
correlations between OSR and Ts
about 3 months earlier (in the tropics for Lindzen).
Richa Sharma, Senior Associate with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, talked
about a study that her team conducted for Delhi from 2003 to 2011 and
found a strong
correlation between change in land use and change in land surface temperature in the city.
But what
about the
correlation Usoskin
found?
I can measure the length of the average «Q - tip» I purchase at my local supermarket and also measure the «standing water» in my driveway after a rain storm, I assure you I can (after many statistical gyrations)
find a
correlation, no doubt
about that.
hank at 107 says, regarding AMOC slowdown: «If there's a
correlation to something we take seriously, say how many codfish are caught, or how late Spring comes, or how late blizzards happen, that'll emerge once people try to correlate what they
found about the AMOC with what's known
about those other things.»
If there's a
correlation to something we take seriously, say how many codfish are caught, or how late Spring comes, or how late blizzards happen, that'll emerge once people try to correlate what they
found about the AMOC with what's known
about those other things.
Researchers who surveyed 6,200 lawyers
about their jobs and health
found that the factors most frequently associated with success in the legal field, such as high income or a partner - track job at a prestigious firm, had almost zero
correlation with happiness and well - being.
1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(
finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail
About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(
finding statistically significant
correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and
finding statistically significant
correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?
The site
found a
correlation between McAfee's tweets
about cryptocurrencies and spikes in their valuation — in the case of Burst coin, a jump of 350 percent.
Fact: The hypothesized per se «absence» of the father
correlation was not
found for «nonwhite» children, indicating that it's not
about father - presence or absence.
Steinberg et al. (1994; Lamborn, Mounts, Steinberg, & Dornbusch, 1991)
found significant
correlations between adolescents» descriptions of their parents» child - rearing methods and replies by the same adolescents to questions
about their own behaviors and attitudes.3 Evidence that such within - informant
correlations can be misleading was provided by Pike, Reiss, Hetherington, and Plomin (1996), who asked both parents and adolescents to report on the parent's negative behavior toward the adolescent and on the adolescent's antisocial behavior.
Sprung and Harris (2010)
found that, in hurricane Katrina - exposed children, there was a positive
correlation between their knowledge
about thinking (including emotions) and their capacity to report on their negative intrusive thoughts.
We also report the positive
correlations found between measurements obtained with this questionnaire (AQ - PA) and other aggression and anger scales (DIAS, STAXI and EXPAGG) and the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS - 11), which provide more evidences
about its convergent validity.