LOL I'm falling out of my chair, laughing... Yes, my grad school stats prof
used to do the same thing to us, pointing out inane cause and effects
supposedly bolstered by high correlation coefficients.  You're right of
course, numbers can be manipulated to prove any point you wish.

Kat

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:09:26 -0500 "Cleveland, Kyle E."
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ah, Joy,  I'm sure you've been through Stats
> 101 at GWU already.  One can
> back up virtually any claim, using
> "statistics".  Here's an argument for
> you, compliments of me dear Mother-In-Law: