The word "correlates" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb, and it means to indicate a relationship or connection between two or more things. For example: "The results of the survey correlate with the trends seen in previous years."
It certainly correlates with the emergence of the web, though whether the correlation reflects causation is unproven.
Nevertheless, he adds, "People under the spell of neuroscience might talk about the neural correlates of love, brain states and chemicals – as if that's what we've discovered love to be, just as we've discovered that water is really H2O.
"This feature takes into account a wide range of signals and context that frequently correlates with abuse including the age of the account itself, and the similarity of a Tweet to other content that our safety team has in the past independently determined to be abusive," says Shreyas Doshi, the company's head of product management.
Indeed, it could be argued that the demise of the middle manager correlates all too suspiciously with the rise in the cult of the CEO.
The computer's task is to come up with a statistical rule that correlates inputs with the correct outputs.
A ranking of the world's biggest banks by return on equity correlates closely with the proportion of revenue they make from retail banking, rather than from racier investment banking.During the bubble years retail banking was a dead end for ambitious managers.
This came after separate talks between a group of moderate, mostly female, senators from northerly states, suggesting that a willingness to compromise correlates with possession of two X-chromosomes and a pair of snowshoes.
The new is a direct examination of people's DNA, searching for genes whose variation correlates with observable behavioural differences.Twins studies, which seek to control for the effects of upbringing by comparing identical twins (who share all their DNA) with fraternal ones (who share, on average, half), have been going on since the 1950s.
That correlates nicely with the fact that among the Amish, men and women are equally long lived.
The fertility trend correlates with the rise of the "teach abstinence only" approach to sex education in American schools.
Its environmental correlates (smoking, for example) act not by poisoning cells directly but by promoting mutations in those cells' DNA.
