Of the Following Research Topics, Which Is Most Likely to Be

question 66

Multiple Choice

Of the following research topics, which is most likely to be a correlation study?

• A) The relationship between hours of exercise and sleep.
• B) The difference in minutes a day exercising between boys and girls.
• C) The types of exercise students engage in after school.
• D) The experiences of John at after school track practice.

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Definitions:

Statistical Tests

Procedures used in statistics to determine whether hypotheses about the distribution of data can be rejected, based on sample data.

Sample Size

The number of observations or subjects included in a study.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the magnitude of a phenomenon, used to indicate the size of an effect or difference found in a study.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, or a "false positive," in hypothesis testing, indicating that the test suggests an effect that does not actually exist.