Researchers have found that statistically, there is a direct positive relationship between students' shoe sizes and their results on spelling tests and spelling bees. (That is, students with larger shoe sizes tend to do better.)

Can you explain this correlation?

The answer is "Older kids tend to do better at these events than younger ones." ???
Wouldn't the difficulty of the words they were being asked to spell become more challenging to account for thier education and vocabulary as they became older ? I seem to remember that it worked that way. I think "the TRICK" to this question was to avoid using any form of logic. I submit that statistically female students are better in vocabulary and spelling than male students, (who generally have larger feet)and if anything, the opposite is true...

Posted by Luke on 2002-10-18 22:03:01