You Are Interested in the Relation Between the Number of Years

question 71

Multiple Choice

You are interested in the relation between the number of years working for a particular company and loneliness at work. You survey 40 workers at this company and figure a correlation between these two variables of -.90. This is considered a:

• A)weak positive linear correlation
• B)weak negative linear correlation
• C)strong positive linear correlation
• D)strong negative linear correlation

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