When You See a Group of Individuals Summarized into a Single

question 14

Multiple Choice

When you see a group of individuals summarized into a single contingency table containing only one row variable and one column variable, what should your reaction be?

• A)Great; this data is clear and easy to understand.
• B)I need to find out if the data have been collapsed over some important third variable.
• C)This is garbage; there is always more to a statistical relationship than just two simple variables.
• D)None of the above.

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