Re: correlation and causality

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From: Murph Sewall
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 00:00

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At 10:32 AM 7/8/95, Larry Marshall wrote:
>>When 2 variables are changing in a constant direction during the same time
>>are they therefore  necessarily LINKED?
>
>I've pointed out, however,
>that my waistline growth is positively correlated with the national debt and
>therefore...

Reminds me of a tongue-in-cheek article someone showed me in a regional
economics journal about 20 years ago in which it was shown that mobile
homes attract tornados (fortunately, for mobile home owners, the size
effect wasn't very large ;-)

/s Murphy A. Sewall <Murphy@sbaserv.sba.uconn.edu> (203) 486-2489 voice
   Professor of Marketing                          (203) 486-5246 fax

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From: Murphy@Sbaserv.SBA.UConn.Edu (Murph Sewall)
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