correlational
IPA: kɔrʌɫˈeɪʃʌnʌɫ
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a correlation
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Examples of "correlational" in Sentences
- This is not causational, and you’ll be hard-pressed to even call it correlational.
- Is there a single correlational study that has satisfactorily removed confounding variables?
- Robin also mentions some correlational studies but in our discussions he never linked to them.
- Researchers have tried many times to link the two but “have not even provided convincing correlational data,” let alone causal links.
- Now those findings are correlational, meaning that it’s perfectly plausible that poor sleep is the result of these other problems, rather than the cause.
- It's difficult to know when looking at a correlational study like this one whether it's just a correlation or an effect, says Duke endocrinologist Susan Spratt.
- Other studies concurred, but all had one thing in common: They were all correlational, meaning researchers compared separate groups of people with different alcohol consumption habits.
- But, as LS points out, "The results are correlational, meaning there's no way to know whether your tendency to pay attention to others influences your political beliefs or whether political beliefs change behavior."
- Because adoption and twin studies that seek to account for trait variation in terms of genetic and environmental variation are always correlational, they reveal nothing about the causes of the appearance of the traits.
- Aarnoutse & van Leeuwe (1998) carried out a study to determine the degree to which reading comprehension, vocabulary, reading pleasure, and reading frequency can be predicted by earlier measures of the same variables and the degree to which path models and common – factor models explain the correlational structure of the development of these four aspects of reading.