Perhaps the Greatest Inhibiting Factor for American Artists in the First

question 40

Multiple Choice

Perhaps the greatest inhibiting factor for American artists in the first half of the nineteenth century was

• A) the lack of first-rate art schools.
• B) the Puritan prejudice that art was a waste of time.
• C) the cultural dependence on Europe.
• D) the lack of adequate patronage from the wealthy or the government.
• E) the popular suspicion of artistic creativity.

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Correlation Coefficients

Numeric measures that describe the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables.

Direct Correlation

A statistical relationship between two variables where both variables move in the same direction.

Nondirectional Correlation

Nondirectional correlation describes the relationship between two variables without specifying whether the relationship is positive or negative, indicating only that a correlation exists.

Unidirectional Correlation

A correlation where an increase in one variable is consistently associated with an increase or decrease in another variable, without reversals in direction.