PEARSONíS SHOCK:
ìSPURIOUS CORRELATIONî
We are thus forced to the conclusion that a mixture of heterogeneous groups, each of which exhibits in itself no organic correlation, will exhibit a greater or less amount of correlation. This correlation may properly be called spurious, yet as it is alm
1. Causation = perfect correlation
2. ìNot all correlations are correlationsî (Aldrich 1994)
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