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- The correlation coefficient can be misleading in the presence of outliers or nonlinear association.
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- $r$ only shows the strength of a linear relationship.
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- High $r$ only indicates high correlation, not causation.
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- $r$ is not a linear, perfect scale. An $r$ of 0.8 does not mean twice as much linearity as an $r$ of 0.4
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- $r$ is not a linear, perfect scale. An $r$ of 0.8 does not mean twice as much linearity as an $r$ of 0.4
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### Ecological Correlations
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- Sometimes each point on the plot represents the average or rate for a whole group of individuals.
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- Ecological correlations are artificially strong
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