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Differences between Bi-conditionals and correlation?

Willa.HaoWilla.Hao Yearly Member
in Logical Reasoning 54 karma

hi guys, i am confused by bi-condition and correlation, are they all the same?

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  • jayp1011jayp1011 Alum Member
    76 karma

    No, very different concepts. Biconditionals are a formal/conditional logical relationship. Correlation is just any association of two or more phenomena

  • jmarmaduke96jmarmaduke96 Member Sage ⭐
    2891 karma

    Biconditionals are a much stronger relationship. I think that you could say that all biconditionals are by definitions also correlations though. For example, if and only if your heart is beating are you alive. That is a biconditional. There is also necessarily an extremely strong correlation between the beating of ones heart and their "alive-ness."

    Obviously, it doesnt go the other way. Just because two things are correlated does not by any stretch of the imagination mean that they are in a biconditional relationship. For example, studying more for the LSAT is correlated with getting a higher score. But there have been plenty of people who have accidentally scored worse on their second attempt at the LSAT for some reason, such as being sick, even though they continued to study.

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