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CORALGRILL2014

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A measure of political conservatism was administered to representative samples of persons of ages 18, 21, 30, 45, and 60, and their respective mean scores were 65, 90, 85, 75, 70 . The correlation between age and political conservatism is
 
  a. 1.0 c. linear.
  b. 1.0 d. curvilinear.

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Statistical significance of a correlation tells us
 
  a. whether it is useful in a practical situation.
  b. whether it is useful for predicting a criterion.
  c. how much variance the measures have in common.
  d. how likely it is that the observed correlation is only a function of chance.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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