A Silly Psychology Student Gathers Data on the Shoe Size $+ 0.6$

question 8

Multiple Choice

A silly psychology student gathers data on the shoe size of 30 of his classmates and their GPA's.
The correlation coefficient between these two variables is most likely to be

• A) near \(+ 0.6\)
• B) exactly \(- 1.0\)
• C) near \(- 0.6\)
• D) exactly \(+ 1.0\)
• E) near 0

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