Interpreting a correlation coefficient is highly dependent of the context in which it is calculated.
By convention, we interpreted a correlation coefficient of <0.3 as weak, 0.3 to 0.7 as moderate and >0.7 as strong.
We interpreted a correlation between eye movements and spatial shifts of attention in WM as being indicative of comparable processes of reorienting and selection between perceptual objects and the refocusing of memory items (Belopolsky & Theeuwes, 2009b, 2011).
Thus, whilst a cautionary approach is required when interpreting a correlation between transcriptome and proteome, the sensitivity and unbiased nature of venom gland transcriptome surveys can be valuable in the identification of rare, unusual or potentially novel toxins and their isoforms that are difficult to detect in the proteome [ 29].
Correlative patterns of whole shape variation are difficult to interpret: a significant correlation would suggest a real congruence, but a weak congruence does not imply a significant correlation.
This makes it difficult to interpret a conditional correlation graph of genes annotated to a pathway.
These results complement previous studies that have interpreted a negative correlation between overeducation and job satisfaction as evidence against the compensating wage differential model of overeducation (see, e.g., Hersch 1991; Korpi and Tåhlin 2009).
Potentially more dangerous is the following: would it be appropriate to interpret a number of strong negative correlations together with a number of strong positive correlations as a bimodal distribution (instead of them simply cancelling each other out)?
Then, looking at Equation 7, each cumulant is easily interpreted as a correlation between the original time series and its associated time-shifted versions, being the computational result of an rth-order cumulant is the rth degree of similarity among the aforementioned time series.
(ICC can be interpreted as a correlation between the measure and some indicator of class membership – in this case that events were all reported by the same individual).
