Let's Assume We Find in a Study That the Correlation

question 97

Multiple Choice

Let's assume we find in a study that the correlation coefficient between number of years of education and cigarette smoking is -0.89. This means that as education level increases:

• A) smoking tends to increase.
• B) smoking tends to decrease.
• C) smoking changes 89 percent.
• D) smoking is nonexistent.
• E) only 89 out of every 100 people in the study would not smoke.

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