correlation
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And true to that name, my job at the Kennedy Center was to investigate the correlation between the arts economy and the economy of civic aspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Researchers throughout the United States widely regard the Nova system when studying the correlation between the prolonged consumption of ultraprocessed foods and resulting health implications because the U.S. doesn’t have a definition of its own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
In part, that is because self-reported sleep measures often show poor correlation with objective assessments, making it difficult to capture real-world sleep patterns.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The above chart summarizes the correlation since 1945 of the market’s return and the presence or absence of gridlock.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Let’s start with the positive correlation: books in the home equal higher test scores.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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It provides a unified—and somewhat badass—identity for a confusing set of weather correlations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But Mitchell wants you to make those correlations, too.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
But SpaceX’s stock actually has “almost no relationship” to Big Tech, according to DataTrek, which cited the 30-day trailing correlations of various stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Scientists have traditionally believed that producing the strong correlations needed for photon entanglement requires coherent light.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
In 1993, a study by Rauscher et al. was published, which looked at the possible correlations between listening to different types of music and intelligence.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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