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by pbhj 6141 days ago
It's 99% correlated (in line with) the longer test method. OK. Then you learn that there were 77 in the study. So they got the result wrong 1% of the time, for 0.8 of a child?

Shenanigans.

"the two tests have a 99% correlation"

"they recruited 77 gifted children through"

[yes, it could be a rounding error]

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That's not at all how correlation is measured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation

lol