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Subject: Re: [TGF] BCG standard #20
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:48:22 -0600
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Larry, you are certainly entitled to disagree with the Oxford/OED definition
of the word "correlation" (although it's a bit of a stretch to pick one
definition out of three given for the word at Dictionary.com, quote it
without sourcing it, and then attribute it to "most disciplines").

But please do not take random words from "this source" and "that source,"
plug them together, and say that *I* say the statement you produced.



Elizabeth



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Subject: Re: [TGF] BCG standard #20


the definition of correlation as normally employed by most disciplines would

reflect this:
1. A causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship, especially

a structural, functional, or qualitative correspondence between two
comparable entities: a correlation between drug abuse and crime.


You say this comparison process (identfying 'connections and contradictions'

is somehow a correlation (process).



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