Two Students Rated, Then Ranked Six Different Television Shows $r _ { s }$

question 25

Multiple Choice

Two students rated, then ranked six different television shows. The final rankings are listed in the table below. Compute the Spearman rank correlation coefficient $r _ { s }$ for their rankings.
$\begin{array}{c|cccccc}\text { Show } & \mathbf{A} & \mathbf{B} & \mathbf{C} & \mathbf{D} & \mathbf{E} & \mathbf{F} \\\hline \text { Student 1 } & 1 & 6 & 3 & 4 & 2 & 5 \\\text { Student 2 } & 3 & 6 & 1 & 5 & 4 & 2\end{array}$

• A) 0.371
• B) 0.886
• C) 0.628
• D) 0.714

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