Suppose a Researcher Wants to Explain Attitudes Towards a Respondent's

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Essay

Suppose a researcher wants to explain attitudes towards a respondent's city of residence in terms of duration of residence in the city.The attitude is measured on an 11-point scale and the duration of residence is measured in terms of the number of years the respondent has lived in the city.In a pretest of 12 respondents,the calculated t value for the correlation coefficient based on the data given is 8.414.The critical value of t for a two-tailed test and α = 0.05 is 2.228.r = .9361.What is the null hypothesis for this scenario? What do the results mean in terms of the null hypothesis and the correlation coefficient,r?

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