Two Students Rated, Then Ranked Seven Different Television Shows

question 62

Multiple Choice

Two students rated, then ranked seven different television shows. The final rankings are listed in the table below. Determine the critical value needed for the Spearman rank correlation coefficient to reject the null hypothesis that the two students' rankings are not correlated at α = 0.01.

• A) 1.000
• B) 0.780
• C) 0.716
• D) 0.929

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