The Correlation Coefficient Measures the Strength of a Linear Relationship

question 141

True/False

The correlation coefficient measures the strength of a linear relationship between two variables.

---

Definitions:

Collective Guilt

Emotional experience where individuals feel responsible for the actions of a group they identify with, even if they didn't partake in those actions directly.

Just World Phenomenon

The cognitive bias that a person's actions always bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person.

Kin Selection

A strategy in evolution where an organism's focus is on enhancing the reproductive prospects of its relatives, even if it results in a compromise to its own survival and ability to reproduce.

Social Exchange

Social exchange is a theory that suggests human relationships are formed based on a subjective cost-benefit analysis and the comparison of alternatives.