A Single Case That Can Drastically Change a Correlation Coefficient

question 74

Short Answer

A single case that can drastically change a correlation coefficient is called an ____________________.

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Definitions:

Retreatist Subculture

A social group that rejects both the societal goals and the means to achieve them, retreating from society's expectations.

Double Failures

Situations or instances where two simultaneous shortcomings or losses occur.

Positivists

Positivists believe in the empirical observation and scientific approach to knowledge, emphasizing that information derived from sensory experience and interpreted through reason and logic forms the exclusive source of all authoritative truth.

Underlying Causes

The fundamental reasons or conditions that give rise to specific events, issues, or situations.