The Granite School District Examined the Standardized Achievement Data for Its

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Short Answer

The Granite School District examined the standardized achievement data for its students and found that the correlation between reading scores and math scores during the most recent year was -.99. They concluded that they had a nearly perfect correlation, indicating that if a student achieved a high score in reading, the same student would achieve a high score in math. Have they reached an appropriate conclusion? Why or why not?

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Definitions:

Stimulus Overload

A condition resulting from being exposed to too many stimuli at once, leading to a sense of being overwhelmed or unable to process information efficiently.

Psychological Retreat

A mental or emotional withdrawal from stressful situations or challenges, often as a defense mechanism.

Milgram

A psychologist best known for his controversial experiment on obedience, demonstrating people's willingness to follow authorities' orders, even to the point of harming others.

Psychological Retreat

Involves withdrawing into oneself or into an imagined safe space as a means of coping with stress or trauma.