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WhattoUnderstand · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Which of the following pairs of variables are most likely to be negatively correlated?

a. education; income
b. amount of practice; quality of performance
c. calories consumed; weight loss
d. effort; success

Question 2

Before Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine to prevent polio, people noticed a correlation between outside temperature and the incidence of polio: The warmer the temperature over the course of the year, the more outbreaks of polio.

This relationship is an example of a(n) ________ correlation.

a. negative
b. positive
c. spurious
d. illusory