On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 00:47:19 -0500, Derrick Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gary Klass wrote: > > > http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/COW/ > > As other posters have noted: always beware the "obvious" implications of > correlations. A common example is that drownings and ice cream sales are > strongly correlated. [...] Yesterday's newspaper summarized a report that screen-writers who had more movies to their credit, and more 4-star pictures in particular, were more likely to have won a writing Oscar, instead of just being nominated. No! Wait! It was backwards of that -- the authors (so it seemed in the news item) concluded that Winners should go on to be more successful... but die younger. And further speculation. My interest faded before I looked it all up. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
