This is more of comment, but I wanted to include a graph and some code. I think the statement "if two predictors are correlated and both are included in a model, one will be insignificant" is false if you mean "only one." Binary statistical significance cannot be used for variable selection. Here's my counterexample using a regression of body fat percentage on thigh circumference, skinfold thickness, and midarm circumference: . webuse bodyfat, clear (Body Fat) . reg bodyfat thigh triceps midarm Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 20 -------------+------------------------------ F( 3, 16) = 21.52 Model | 396.984607 3 132.328202 Prob > F = 0.0000 Residual | 98.4049068 16 6.15030667 R-squared = 0.8014 -------------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.7641 Total | 495.389513 19 26.0731323 Root MSE = 2.48 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ bodyfat | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- thigh | -2.856842 2.582015 -1.11 0.285 -8.330468 2.616785 triceps | 4.334085 3.015511 1.44 0.170 -2.058512 10.72668 midarm | -2.186056 1.595499 -1.37 0.190 -5.568362 1.19625 _cons | 117.0844 99.78238 1.17 0.258 -94.44474 328.6136 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . corr bodyfat thigh triceps midarm (obs=20) | bodyfat thigh triceps midarm -------------+------------------------------------ bodyfat | 1.0000 thigh | 0.8781 1.0000 triceps | 0.8433 0.9238 1.0000 midarm | 0.1424 0.0847 0.4578 1.0000 . ellip thigh triceps, coefs plot(, yline(0, lcolor(gray)) xline(0, lcolor(gray))) ![enter image description here][1] As you can see from the regression table, everything is insignificant, though the p-values vary a bit. The last Stata command graphs the confidence region for 2 of the regression coefficients (a 2 dimensional analog of the familiar confidence intervals). The confidence ellipse for the skinfold thickness and thigh circumference coefficients is long, narrow and tilted, reflecting the collinearity in the regressors. There's high negative covariance between the estimated coefficients. The ellipse covers parts of the vertical and the horizontal axes, which means that we cannot reject the individual hypotheses that the $\beta$s are zero, though we can reject the joint null that both are since the ellipse does not cover the origin. In other words, either thigh and triceps are relevant for body fat, but you can't determine which one is the culprit. The variation in a regressor can be classified into two types: 1. Variation unique to each regressor 2. Variation that is shared by the regressors In estimating the coefficients of each regressor, only the first will be used. Common variation is ignored since it cannot be allocated, though it is used in prediction and calculating $R^2$. When there is little unique information, the confidence will be low and coefficient variances will be high. The higher the multicollinearity, the smaller the unique variation, and the greater the variances. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/IPmyu.jpg