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un·cor·re·lat·ed | \ ˌən-ˈkȯr-ə-ˌlā-təd 
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\Definition of uncorrelated
: having no mutual relationship : not affecting one through changes in the other : not correlated uncorrelated factors You also realize that interviewing capability is uncorrelated with a GMAT score; nobody is born with the ability to interview well.— Kimberly A. Whitler
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Recent Examples on the Web For much of its existence, Bitcoin’s performance has been mostly uncorrelated to the stock market, as the below chart, provided by CoinMetrics, a cryptocurrency market research firm, shows.
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Robert Hackett, Fortune, "If Bitcoin is a ‘safe haven’ why does it tank in times of trouble?," 16 Mar. 2020 Over the last five-odd years, there has been significant chatter among crypto advocates that bitcoin is uncorrelated with broader markets because of its disconnection from legacy financial systems.
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David Z. Morris, Fortune, "Andrew Yang was right about cash relief," 18 Mar. 2020 This is an asset with no cash flows backing it and extremely limited real-world application, and one that is uncorrelated to financial markets.
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Washington Post, "Bitcoin’s Bulls Are Revving Up the Lamborghinis," 13 May 2019 But sometimes owning uncorrelated assets means eating big losses while the rest of the market screams higher.
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Ben Carlson, Fortune, "Why You Actually May Want to Buy ‘Bears’ in a Bull Market," 26 Dec. 2019 The noise at each detector should be completely uncorrelated — a jackhammer going off in the town near one detector won’t show up as noise in the other.
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Quanta Magazine, "Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate," 30 June 2017 Precious metals & mining companies seem to fit that bill but the catch with uncorrelated assets is sometimes that means eating big losses while the rest of the market screams higher.
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Ben Carlson, Fortune, "Looking For Stock Market Buying Opportunities? There’s Always a Bear Market Somewhere," 22 Nov. 2019 These errors can be magically smoothed out by poll aggregation, giving a much more accurate mean polling number — provided the errors in individual polls were all due to different causes, and were therefore independent and uncorrelated.
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Quanta Magazine, "The Devil in the Polling Data," 11 Nov. 2016 The most famous statistical pattern of all is the normal distribution, which takes the shape of a bell curve and describes the statistical distribution of a wide range of uncorrelated events (like heights in a population or scores on the SAT).
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Quanta Magazine, "Universal Pattern Explains Why Materials Conduct," 6 May 2019
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