{"id":6935,"date":"2015-04-18T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T08:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2015-04-18T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T18:55:18","slug":"predicts-vs-correlation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/18\/predicts-vs-correlation\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicts vs Correlated With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I see a correlation between two variables, is it generally correct terminology to say that one &#8220;predicts&#8221; the other? For example, in this chart, should I say that hours studied <strong>predict <\/strong>the grade received?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/study-graph.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/study-graph-300x286.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/study-graph-300x286.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/study-graph-200x191.gif 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/study-graph-50x48.gif 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would think one shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;predicts&#8221; because that is a one-way term. For example, it is possible that A predicts B but B does not predict A. Waking up 10 minutes before sunrise every day predicts getting to see the sunrise often, but seeing the sunrise often wouldn&#8217;t necessarily predict your wake up time, especially if you work the night-shift.<\/p>\n<p>I would say &#8220;there is a correlation between A and B&#8221; but without more research on the directionality of the relationship, I shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;A predicts B&#8221; or &#8220;B predicts A&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m asking because I&#8217;ve seen a few research papers that use this terminology and I wonder if I should adopt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I see a correlation between two variables, is it generally correct terminology to say that one &#8220;predicts&#8221; the other? For example, in this chart, should I say that hours studied predict the grade received? I would think one shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;predicts&#8221; because that is a one-way term. For example, it is possible that A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}