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To: koan who wrote (26654)	9/6/2012 3:20:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Your link doesn't even have the word correlation in it. No, we are not talking about specific people, but poulations of people. Your talking about correlations within populations of people. The correlation relies on the data for all the individuals to be perfect, not just the overall trend. If you have outliers and exceptions, and people who don't fit the trend then you don't have perfect correlation. Its a rather technical point, which is why I'm surprised your defending the false claim so strongly. A positive correlation is all that is needed to support your point not a perfect one. But then I also wonder why your pushing the point so much. No one is claiming "education is useless", or "education is not correlated with income", so to the extent your attacking those points, your knocking down straw-men. The initial point was about federal taxes. "Education is useful"., "Education is correlated with income", even "Education causes an increase in income" (which you did not establish, but I'm not challenging), doesn't get you to "its a good idea to raise tax rates.