One Wants to Find the Correlation Between Social Adjustment and Achievement

question 36

Multiple Choice

One wants to find the correlation between social adjustment and achievement with the effects of intelligence controlled.The appropriate index to use is

• A) correlation ratio.
• B) tetrachoric correlation.
• C) multiple correlation.
• D) partial correlation.

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Definitions:

Negative Scores

Values that fall below the established point of origin or benchmark in a data set, indicating a deficit or loss.

Inferential Statistics

The branch of statistics that aims to draw conclusions about a population based on a sample.

Variables

Any traits, factors, or quantities that can assume different values in a given study.

Z-scores

Z-scores are statistical measurements that describe a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, expressed in terms of standard deviations.