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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (32594)3/15/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Steve, I know you don't have the guts for this, but take a very long roll of butcher paper, and mark off the long side 1" = $1000, and then plot the weight of a sample of men on the vertical axis and their wealth on the horizontal axis. You will find a lot of people in the first two feet of your paper. Now, plot Bill Gates $70 billion and McNealy, and Moore, and any other billionaires you wish on the right-hand side. You can use a long black piece of thread as a regression line, and you will find that it is almost flat, but the richest man (Gates) is skinnier than most of the other billionaires.
If you care to compute the regression line W = a + b(Wealth) you will find that a is very large and b is very small (although it may be significant if you use a big enough sample. You can do a multiple regression if your are really interested. You can do it for different sexes. But weight and wealth are not causally related, there are many other variables that mess up the realtionship.
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