Social science correlation of 0.92

Social science correlations over 0.90 are relatively rare, at least for correlations of items that aren't trying to measure the same thing, so I thought I'd post about the 0.92 correlation that I came across in the data from the Leslie et al. 2015 Science article. Leslie et al. co-author Andrei Cimpian emailed me the data in Excel form, which made the analysis a lot easier.

Leslie et al. asked faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students in a given discipline to respond to this item: "Even though it's not politically correct to say it, men are often more suited than women to do high‐level work in [discipline]." Responses were made on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). Responses to that suitability stereotype item correlated at -0.19 (p=0.44, n=19) with the mean GRE verbal reasoning score for a discipline and at 0.92 (p<0.0001, n=19) with the mean GRE quantitative reasoning score for a discipline [source].