A Personality Researcher Revisits the Hypothesis That Frustration Leads to Regression.She

question 83

Multiple Choice

A personality researcher revisits the hypothesis that frustration leads to regression.She collects data from 49 female Internet users measuring their sense of personal frustration and their self-ratings of aggression.A scatterplot is shown below. Which of the following statements is true?

• A)The research shows that frustration causes aggression.
• B)The research shows that aggression causes frustration.
• C)The research shows that either frustration causes aggression or aggression causes frustration but we need an experiment to decide which one is true.
• D)It is impossible to determine the nature of the causal relationship between variables in this type of research.
• E)It looks like frustration causes aggression but we need to know whether the effect is significant before we can draw this conclusion.

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