You Find a Correlation of

question 74

Multiple Choice

You find a correlation of .44 between a measure of subjects' extraversion and their reports of how many people they have dated in the last two years.This finding means that

• A) 44 percent of extraverts date a lot.
• B) extraversion accounts for 44 percent of the variation in the amount of subjects' dating.
• C) high extraversion is associated with infrequent dating.
• D) high extraversion is associated with more frequent dating.

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