Two Groups of Students - Those Looking to Study Science

question 57

Multiple Choice

Two groups of students - those looking to study science degrees and those looking to study business degrees - are asked to rank, in order of preference, the universities they are applying for. The researcher then wants to determine the correlation between the two groups. Which statistical test is most appropriate?

• A) Pearson's correlation coefficient
• B) Chi-square test
• C) Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient
• D) Independent samples t-test

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