How Correlated Are You?
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How Correlated Are You?
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#2Probably pretty correlated
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#3Probably pretty correlated
What’s your baseline?
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#4Surprising article. The conclusion that ear protrusion (yes, that's a thing) has no genetic basis is of course not impossible, but seems unlikely. It would require another data set to establish it.
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#5I am Causation.
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#6Surprising article. The conclusion that ear protrusion (yes, that's a thing) has no genetic basis is of course not impossible, but seems unlikely. It would require another data set to establish it.
I have a lot of ear protrusion, which is even more notable due to my large ears. Having seen old pictures of my great grandfather last weekend, it seems clear whose genes for large protruded ears I inherited.
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#7I am Causation.
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#8A colleague once pronounced correlation "co-relation" and it made more sense so now I say it that way sometimes. Anyone else do that?
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#9A colleague once pronounced correlation "co-relation" and it made more sense so now I say it that way sometimes. Anyone else do that?
Do people not try to work out the ethymology of words? Everything makes more sense when you know where words came from and how they came to be. :)
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#10A colleague once pronounced correlation "co-relation" and it made more sense so now I say it that way sometimes. Anyone else do that?
Do people not try to work out the ethymology of words? Everything makes more sense when you know where words came from and how they came to be. :)
I do somehow because of my inherent interest in understanding the world.
However, this got me intro communication issues with my former boss. Apparently, this person was not interested in what words (or combinations of words) actually mean but rather simply just how they're used frequently. Every new combination of words was utterly confusing to this person.
As a conclusion, I try to figure out how people process language and adapt accordingly. In my experience, most people don't see language as a coherent system of words with meaning.