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by acscott 4204 days ago
You can correlate most anything with most anything. I'm not saying don't try, just to don't give correlations much credence in and of themselves. Thinking globally, what are the odds a coincidence doesn't happen? And when you exclude outliers, you may be excluding the most profound subjects, just as when you include non-outliers, the subjects may not be able to generalize outside the system of measurement.