interesting question

If it is homework and you go with gundamguys you will probably get told off or to take it seriously or something. Although I fully agree with him. :P

nah, wasn't homework. He was offering extra credit, but he said he doesn't think anyone will get it right. Who knows, this teacher has a pretty good sense of humor, he might accept that answer.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=correlation

What, everyone just assumed the "correlation" bit meant there was a real relationship between the two?...

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nah, wasn't homework. He was offering extra credit, but he said he doesn't think anyone will get it right. Who knows, this teacher has a pretty good sense of humor, he might accept that answer.

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I added just a bit more, so that it ties in to the strike/STD example more.

In stat's we would call this a Common response

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Common response: Both X and Y respond to changes in some unobserved variable. All three of our examples are examples of common response.
Ice cream sales and shark attacks both increase during summer.
Skirt lengths and stock prices are both controlled by the general attitude of the country, liberal or conservative.
The number of cavities and children's vocabulary are both related to a child's age.

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Or it is possible that this is an example of Confounding

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The effect of X on Y is hopelessly mixed up with the effects of other explanatory variables on y. For example, if we are studying the effects of Tylenol on reducing pain, and we give a group of pain-sufferers Tylenol and record how much their pain is reduced, we are confounding the effect of giving them Tylenol with giving them any pill. Many people report a reduction in pain by simply being given a sugar pill with no medication in it at all, this is called the placebo effect. To establish causation, a designed experiment must be run

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I guess it's hard to sort mail w/ rashes on your genitilia so the postal workers resorted to drugs to help lessen the pain...Unfortunately this requires larger amounts of income, therefore the end result is a strike.

GundamGuy.... Excellent. I am just gonna copy and paste that and send it to him right now.

(This WASN'T sarcasm. I really liked that answer.)

Wow...um...its a little too late to be reading the big words right now...so ima stick with horny mailmen

Just a quick question to falados, What season is it there?

Simple, people who strike and protest against shit are all hippies and everyone knows hippies are nothing but freeloading STD carrying Nymphomaniac pot heads.

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Just a quick question to falados, What season is it there?

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During the strike thing? Not sure, probably lasted a year. My serious thought is that maybe when the postal people went on strike, because they were jobless they started doing drugs and shared needles and stuff...

Well i can explain the STD's and the drugs if it was summer.
Summer is when all the animals start screwing so if you notice alot more people go out in summer they get pissed but if they dont drink they do drugs so the increase of party drugs = more OD's cos there is more users doin it. As for the STD's well more chicks drunk = easy chance your goin to get layed so in theory a codom would be good but if you are both drunk then yeah you might not remeber lololol.

shouldn't Gundam Guy be getting the bonus points?

or at least 100 gil.

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shouldn't Gundam Guy be getting the bonus points?

or at least 100 gil.

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That's not nessary, i like talking Stat's.

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shouldn't Gundam Guy be getting the bonus points?

or at least 100 gil.

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Heh, I miss gil, I was saving for my MIDI song when they deleted it :(

It caused too many poll spams though....

Anyway, The_Watcher, that's a good answer, except it doesn't include the poor mailmen.... He said I only get one chance to turn it in, so i can't give him a BS answer then give him a real one later............................................. .........................I'll stick with GundamGuy's.

It gets hot and they dont want to work cos they are lazy bastards