You Read a Research Study That Claims to Have Found

question 205

Multiple Choice

You read a research study that claims to have found a correlation of r = -.43 between smoking and vegetable consumption. This means that

• A) the less people smoke, the fewer vegetables they eat.
• B) the more people smoke, the fewer vegetables they eat.
• C) the more people smoke, the more vegetables they eat.
• D) smoking and vegetable consumption are unrelated.

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