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Re:Genetic correlation of various human qualities by hsuduebc2 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:52PM (#25680412)
What is Y in this graph please? Possibility to have correlation?
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Re:Genetic correlation of various human qualities by checkyoursudo on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:12PM (#25680598)
X is one variable and y is another. The correlation is, given x, how likely can we predict y.

So if x is IQ score, and y is income, and if there is a strong positive correlation, then given high IQ (x) we can confidently predict high income (y).

If there is no correlation between x and y, then given x, we cannot predict y.

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