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Re:Intelligence and radical economic attitudes by marketerinland on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:33PM (#32920564)
Maybe you’re not familiar with how correlation is reported, but 0.23-0.5 is very high.
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Re:Intelligence and radical economic attitudes by hirvi74 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:21PM (#32929109)
I think I am hung up on semantics.

If 0.23-0.5 correlation is "very high" then what is 0.7-0.9? Would r >= 0.7 be literal causation at that point for psychologist? (I'm kidding, of course)

Again, I am not saying that a correlation of 0.23-0.5 is statistically insignificant by any means. I just think I needed "very high" to be coupled with "for psychology."

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