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  1. Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!constellation!nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu!nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu!blanchard
  3. From: blanchard@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu (David O. Blanchard)
  4. Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
  5. Message-ID: <28JAN199301402693@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu>
  6. News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
  7. Sender: news@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu
  8. Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
  9. References: <1993Jan22.163518.13003@unocal.com> <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> <1993Jan25.203535.5296@ists.ists.ca> <1993Jan26.225236.19841@husc3.harvard.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:40:00 GMT
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  13.  
  14. +In article <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> 
  15. +ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
  16. +
  17. +Correlation != causation.
  18. +
  19. +In article <1993Jan25.203535.5296@ists.ists.ca>
  20. +bsugars@nereid.sal.ists.ca (Benjamin Sugars) writes:
  21. +
  22. +Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't any two events that are periodic
  23. +show some kind of unusually high correlation, no matter how unrelated
  24. +they may be?
  25. +
  26. +In article <1993Jan26.225236.19841@husc3.harvard.edu>, 
  27. +dnolan@husc10.harvard.edu (David Nolan) writes...
  28. +
  29. +Only if they have the same oscillation period.  But I think Ilana
  30. +was joking anyway...
  31.  
  32. Maybe it was not obvious, but the "!=" operator translates as "NOT EQUAL".
  33. What Ilana said was correlation does not equal causation.
  34.  
  35. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  36. |David O. Blanchard        dob@nssl.erl.gov               |
  37. |Boulder, Colorado        blanchard@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu           |
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