n.
1.a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables
Idiom of the Day
pass for/as (someone or something)
to succeed in being accepted as someone or something
The young woman was trying to pass for a reporter when she went to the concert. The man was passing as someone who knew more than he did.
