> You made a model with the "exact same exposure in different units", > which is something that no one would do,
Hehe, translation is don't post messages until you've thought them through. Anyway, turns out that the answer to my question is "No".. Multicollinearity cannot force a correlation. It turns out that ONE of the variables *was* correlated With R^2=0.45 and so multicollinearity had no effect on overall R^2. I'm sure no-one is interested in my data as it has nothing to do with statistics, my subject of interest is not statistics.. but i need to learn it as a tool.. ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================