Before Starting the Calculations of a Correlation, One Should

question 100

Multiple Choice

Before starting the calculations of a correlation, one should:

• A) examine the data for outliers.
• B) construct a scatterplot.
• C) compute deviation scores for each participant's scores.
• D) check to see if the pattern of the data appears to be nonlinear.

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