On 12 Jun 2003 07:18:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Johnson) wrote: [ snip, some ] > Please understand that I used quotes to pinpoint exact phrases in > order to search for relevant matches instead of words smattered > throughout a web page. My web searching skills might not be the best > but they are OK, and these are my results: > > "more apt to lie" Several matches but in mainly informal dialogue > "causes deception" Several matches but in unrelated or informal > dialogue > "Correlation with deceptive" 0 matches in Google Web and 0 on Google > Groups > "correlates to deceptive" 0/0
[snip, bunch of zero results ] Web Search on < "correlates +with" dishonesty> 326 hits. Most of the first ones look like what you are seeking. Web search on < "correlates +with" deception> 1340 hits. Many of the first ones look appropriate. The plus sign forces the search to include the common word, and leaving 'dishonesty' outside of the quotes lets the word appear anywhere. You have to check the result more closely, but that seems more useful than having 0 hits. [ ... ] > > > In comparison, these results come up on other topics: > > "Correlation with obesity" 50/22 [ snip, rest] Yeah, I can imagine someone saying that, and saying <your other examples that had hits> . I'm not sure how I can make the point, if you don't have an ear for the language -- but the phrases that you did NOT find, mostly sound awful, and I can easily imagine that no one writes them. Maybe: Obesity, in one sense, is more concrete than "lying"? Or, Deception is a 'multi-level' word (in the terminology of General Semantics)? Try, Sisela Bok, Lying (New York: Vintage Books, 1999). I read that when it was new, and I was favorably impressed. I admit, I don't remember the details today. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." Justice Holmes. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
