If a Psychologist Interested in the Relation Between Number of Years

question 49

Multiple Choice

If a psychologist interested in the relation between number of years working for a particular company and loneliness at work surveyed 40 workers at this company and figured a correlation between these two variables of -.90,the correlation is considered a

• A)weak positive linear correlation.
• B)weak negative linear correlation.
• C)strong positive linear correlation.
• D)strong negative linear correlation.

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