On the whole, the results do show a clear correlation between asset strength and brand reputation.
All these issues, especially crime, have been sensationalised by the tabloids beyond any correlation to the actual facts.
Instead, there seems to be a direct correlation between how respected an award is and the palpable awkwardness of the winners.
Under Labour and the Tories there has been a strong correlation between party donations and appearances on honours lists.
The analysis was conducted by Dr Xi Li of Wuhan University in China, whose team found that the night-light loss showed a linear correlation with the number of people internally displaced from each Syrian province.
There was, he said, "a powerful correlation between the size of a city and the productivity of its inhabitants".
Abbott got into an unhappy tangle with the science of climate change in the first months of his prime ministership, dismissing the link between rising temperatures and bushfires and accusing the chief UN climate official of "talking through her hat" when she pointed out the correlation.
Data from Ucas also shows that there is no clear correlation between a particular approach to fees and widening access to higher education.
I don't think there's any correlation between bicycle lanes and political activity.
"There was a correlation," he says, of the link between self-control and personality traits.
Conceding that several of the criticisms are valid, John Jerrim, a lecturer at the Institute of Education, points to the strong correlation between student performance in Pisa and key stage 3 maths exams – and between Pisa and other tests such as TIMSS.
