This is a typical misuse of regression result.

The strong correlation between SAT and Income also can be interprated as high SAT

gives high income or vise versa. It doesn't say which one is the cause, which one

is the result

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• we are talking about the family income and the student's SAT sco -Big_Benz- ♂ (198 bytes) () 12/27/2010 postreply 20:32:54

• Commonly, it's paired as "cause and EFFECT". -svb- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/27/2010 postreply 22:56:03