When Researchers Are Interested in Predicting Some Future Behavior Based

question 37

Multiple Choice

When researchers are interested in predicting some future behavior based on a person's score on some other variable, they should:

• A)construct several criterion variables.
• B)construct a scatterplot in addition to looking at the magnitude of the correlation coefficient.
• C)demonstrate that there is a reasonably high correlation between the criterion and predictor variables.
• D)demonstrate that the correlation coefficient of the known and the unknown variable is closer to -1.00.

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