Suppose That Dr

question 162

Multiple Choice

 Suppose that Dr.Poonnamalee finds a correlation of +.68 between the amount of humor professors use and the grades that students earn in their classes.What can he appropriately conclude from this finding? 

• A)There is no meaningful relationship between these two variables.
• B)Greater use of humor is associated with higher grades.
• C)Greater use of humor is associated with lower grades.
• D)Humor, or the lack of it, causes student grades to be higher or lower.

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