Actually, the original quote referred to it being easier to get a camel
through the eye of a needle than to get a rich man into heaven. It's from
the Bible, Matthew 9:24.
Not trying to open a debate, just properly attributing a quote.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 12:14 PM
To: Robert Hamer
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Subject: Re: Correlation conversion
On 22 Dec 1999, Robert Hamer wrote, in response to haytham siala's
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> question:
HS >Can anyone please tell me how to convert a Kendal-tau correlation to a
HS >Pearson correlation?
RH> It is easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle
RH> than to convert a Tau to a Pearson correlation.
I believe the original of this quote referred to "the Eye of the Needle",
a particularly narrow (mainly pedestrian) gate into the walled city of
Jerusalem. Is that the image you intended? (I know that some people
tend to take quotations from that source rather more literally than one
suspects they were intended...)
-- Don.
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