What Does a Correlation Coefficient Do

question 21

Multiple Choice

What does a correlation coefficient do?

• A)It allows us to draw conclusions about whether one variable causes another variable.
• B)It creates a correlational design, rather than an experimental design.
• C)It simplifies a complex pattern involving many scores into one easily interpreted statistic.
• D)It summarizes the X scores and the Y scores separately.

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