A Researcher Examines the Relationship Between Poverty and Crime Rates

question 35

Multiple Choice

A researcher examines the relationship between poverty and crime rates for 100 metropolitan areas and finds a zero-order correlation of 0.37.She controls for the percent of families that are headed by single parents and finds a first order partial correlation of 0.06.This is a ____ relationship.

• A)direct
• B)statistically significant
• C)spurious
• D)interactive

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