I think what joey means are subjects like palm reading, astrology, chinese horoscope, feng shui, superstitious belief. Can palm line actually tell so much of our past, present and most importantly, future? How about horoscope? Does it really forecast our future? Half (if not most) of the time they are correct! I believe this is what science correlation is all about. People observe the trend, come up with their own reasoning, and make more observation until they found the correlation between the less unrelated thing.

One of the thing that people like to argue about this type of correlation is that it is merely a coincidence. How many coincidence could we have?

How about genetic science? Scientists say each DNA represent a different characteristic of any living creature. There is no way to experiment with DNA, but by observing the different DNA of different people, noted their physical different and draw the correlation.

I think science correlation (or whatever it is called) is about anything that require a group of subjects to testify the relation. There is no way a correlation can be established with only 1 subject. It's like looking for consistency among the group of subject.

For gaming and academic, I think we can't draw up any relation between this 2 without first putting up a certain criteria, like breaking the group of people into more specific group.

I wonder, does psychology falls under this category? The way they tell about a person by looking at the picture drawn by them? I think so.

This is a tough topic. Where did you get the idea from?

This post has been edited by Aurora: Jul 1 2009, 12:24 AM