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- From: lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib)
- Subject: Re: Superbowl and the Stock Market
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:47:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.184723.11930@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <C19JAE.Iot@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> dgorbet@rainbow.UWaterloo.ca (D.P.H. Gorbet) writes:
- >In article <1jk2hiINN9uk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy)
- >writes:
- >>
- >> Has anybody heard about the relation of the superbowl and the stock
- >> market ? I've heard about it sometime ago but don't remember much of
- >> the details. It goes something like if the AFC wins stocks go up,
- >> (or is it the other way around) and said that year after year, it has
- >> been accurate!
- >>
- >It is mentioned in the book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street". There is
- >also the women's skirt length - stock market relationship.
- >
- >The feeling in the book (and I agree) is that this is simply a correlation
- >and that there is no causal relationship at work here. (i.e. don't put
- >your money on it.)
-
- More to the point mayhap is whether after discovering a correlation one
- can determine if there is any apparent reason for the correlation. In
- the case of football many conclude there is no reason whereas in the
- case of skirt lengths writers (most recently Bob Precter - sp??) have
- decided expalined why there may be.
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