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fasfsadfdsfa · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Fiona, a quantitative psychologist, is interested in using inferential statistics because they provide ____.

a. a measure of how likely it is that a result came about by chance
b. a correlation between the dependent variable and the independent variable
c. information about the variability of the data
d. a summarization of a pool of data

Question 2

Edhilvia is studying the relationship between smoking and number of visits to the doctor. After giving a survey to 1,000 people, she finds that the more people smoked, the more times they visited the doctor every year. From these results, Edhilvia can logically conclude that ____.

a. there is a negative correlation between smoking and visiting the doctor
b. there is a positive correlation between smoking and visiting the doctor
c. smoking causes people to go to the doctor
d. her results are invalid since participants were not randomly assigned to groups