No, it doesn't tell us anything. Kendall's tau is usually, but not always,
less than Spearman's. Unless the correlation is strong, Spearman's is about
50% greater than Kendall's tau. We should not compare the value of a rank
correlation by one method to the value obtained by the other method.
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