army1987 comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Yvain 07 December 2012 09:04PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 December 2012 09:08:27PM *  0 points [-]

A correlation coefficient is not a slope. (A slope changes if you multiply one of the variables by a constant, whereas a correlation doesn't.)

EDIT: I think the slope is the correlation times the standard deviation of y divided by the standard deviation of x.