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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



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
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Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
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