She "correlated" these incidents and inferred at last that John must be sabotaging the equipment.
Dr. Fisher now says the ruling against her last year made sense because her algorithm at that time was still a work in progress as she correlated sociological and psychological measures, as well as indicators linked to chemical systems in the brain.
This surprising trend, she explained, "correlates strongly to unemployment and economic stress... It's worst in communities that have been hollowed out by teen pregnancy and domestic violence... where families are fractured".
She then correlated the data from these visits with estimates of local rainfall made by examining the composition of rocks from nearby caves.
The smell-rich environment, scent-centric cultural practices and evident lack of taboos enjoyed by the Jahai and Maniq are, she believes, correlated with their recall and use of smell-related words.
Indeed, although she refers early on in the book to a study showing that for men success and likability are positively correlated, whereas for women they are inversely correlated, she manages to beat that bum rap.
In other words, the researcher never knows for sure whether the instrument that he or she used is correlated with unobserved variables that are causally related to the outcome.
What are we aiming to accomplish, and how does scale correlate?" she probes.
In her work on yolk-free South African species, Manton (1949) found no evidence for the mouth-anus furrow (blastopore of earlier authors) producing endodermal cells and contributing to the anterior midgut and hence, she did not correlate this groove with the blastopore.
She would play these over and over again, and learn, by degrees, to correlate what she saw, so that she could then predict how people in similar circumstances might act.
