Despite the stronger rationale for looking at relative rather than absolute change in party support, the historical data
show weaker correlations with the former than the latter.
The chart below
shows a weak correlation of.341 since then.
Jennifer Irish (one of Andrew Dessler's collegues though a similar entry onto his blog generated no discussion) at Texas A&M University recently gave a talk on analyses that
showed a weak correlation between storm intensity and surge height or area.
Doing this on a year - to - year basis shows NO apparent correlation with the absolute «globally and annually averaged land and sea surface temperature anomaly» (i.e. HadCRUT3), but does
show a weak correlation with the CHANGE in temperature from the previous year, for example:
The physical health domain
showed weak correlation (Table 5).
Regarding concurrent validity, the JW - DEQ version B
showed a weak correlation with the HADS anxiety subscale, which was expected (Table 3).
In contrast, Agent of Change and Inevitable Change
showed weaker correlations with growth beliefs (r (399) =.21 p <.01 and r (399) =.16, p <.01 respectively).
Each parental measure
showed weak correlations with academic ability in the expected directions.
Not exact matches
In fact, many of the studies NAMI references do
show correlations, but describe them as «inconsistent» or «
weak.»
The results
show that the
correlation between climate change — i.e. the variation in temperature and precipitation between glacials and interglacials — and the loss of megafauna is
weak, and can only be seen in one sub-region, namely Eurasia (Europe and Asia).
Qualitative focus group follow - up studies
showed that acceptance is heavily conditioned by authority figures (teachers, TV personalities, religious figures) and the
correlation between the students» understanding of evolution and their acceptance of it is
weak.
Other possible factors that might explain or influence the altruistic behavior — such as higher cognition (measured by brain size), hunting in groups, or stronger social bonds between group members —
showed either much
weaker correlations or no
correlation at all with helping behaviors.
However, when track and field athletes are tested according to the most standard procedures (back squat and / or bench press 1RM respectively for lower and upper body strength) the
correlation between absolute strength and performance in competition has
shown to be relatively
weak.
While detailed research
shows that stocks have a
weak negative
correlation with inflation, this relationship is not pervasive over place and time, and most researchers recognize the large amount of noise in the data.
(i) Harrison and Stephenson
show (see their Figure 2; reproduced in Figure 3 in top article) a very
weak correlation between the CRF and the diffuse fraction (DF)(cloudiness — presumably dominated by changes in low - level cloudiness), which breaks down when the CRF is higher than 3600 (x100) per hour.
In some specific contexts, they may be even higher, but evidence there is very
weak; i.e. the studies that do purport to
show high numbers are typically conflate causality with
correlation (see point two below).
To see this
correlation a little better, I've reversed the sign so that
weaker Trade Winds are
shown as positive values and stronger Trade Winds are
shown as negative values.
For tree growth and recruitment, all nine tree species
showed significant
correlations with stand - level competition, whereas the effects of climate change on tree growth were
weak for most tree species (SI Appendix, Fig.
Numerous attempts to confirm these
correlations based on different climate models have
shown that it is only possible if either the applied perturbations of direct solar radiative forcing are large (consistent with a direct solar radiative forcing from the present to Maunder minimum ΔFP − M ~ 0.6 − 0.8 W / m2) or if the amplification of a
weak direct solar forcing is substantial.
To date, only
weak evidence relates job satisfaction to work productivity while much stronger evidence
shows a positive
correlation between psychological well - being and work performance.
Families with poor communication and
weak family bonds have been
shown to have a
correlation with children's development of aggressive / criminal behavior (Garnefski & Okma, 1996).
It
showed weak or non-significant
correlation with measures of social avoidance, fearfulness, and shyness, thus indicating discriminant validity.
As seen in Table 7, victimization at T1
showed weak prospective
correlations with aggression at T2 (r s ranging from.20 to.26).
that
showed a
weak item - total
correlation (r =.19), resulting in a low internal consistency of the IA subscale (α =.70.58).
EF remained significantly correlated with both negative parent - child interaction, pr (100) = − 0.29, p = 0.003, and parental scaffolding, pr (100) = 0.29, p = 0.003, but
showed a
weak and non-significant
correlation with the HLE, pr (100) = 0.13, p = 0.19.