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Here’s your shmoop du jour, brought to you by carbon-14 dating.

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The antidote to match.com.

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What correlation can be drawn between the carbon-14 content the year a patient was born

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and the carbon-14 content in that individual's eye proteins?

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And here are the potential answers...

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So we’re looking for a CORRELATION. Just another word for relationship.

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But which figure do we use?

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Well, figure 1 gives us the amount of carbon-14 the year a patient is born compared to

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the amount of carbon-14 in that individual’s eye protein….exactly what we’re looking for.

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So, to answer this question correctly, all we need to do is refer to figure 1.

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Figure 1 shows that the amount of carbon-14 (14C) in an individual's eye is directly related

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to the amount of 14C in the atmosphere at the time of that individual's birth.

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Notice how the red line showing model output of 14C in the eye is almost exactly on top

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of the grey line showing the 14C content in the atmosphere.

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That means that both values are nearly identical.

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Choice C just happens to use the exact words, “nearly identical”.

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And that's our answer.

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You can find love out there if you're carbon-14 dating enough.

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