John Finds the Pearson R Correlation Coefficient Between Variable a and Variable

question 30

Multiple Choice

John finds the Pearson r correlation coefficient between variable A and variable B to be 0.00.Before concluding there is no relationship between the variables,John should

• A) use a different set of participants.
• B) restrict the range from which he samples.
• C) construct a scatterplot of the data.
• D) calculate the effect size for the relationship.

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