One Important Reason for Displaying Correlational Data in a Scatterplot

question 22

Multiple Choice

One important reason for displaying correlational data in a scatterplot prior to computing a correlation coefficient is to make sure

• A) the relationship between the variables is linear.
• B) the means for the two variables are the same.
• C) the x- and y-axis for each variable has appropriate endpoints.
• D) the causal variable is graphed on the x-axis.

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