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imanialler

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Assume you are using GRE scores and undergraduate grades to predict graduate GPA. If the correlation of GRE scores and undergraduate grades were .18 rather than .56, then GRE scores would be ____ for predicting graduate GPA.
 
  a. more useful c. less useful
  b. equally useful

Question 2

The correlation between the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and undergraduate GPA for all people taking the GRE is .56 . If the correlation is recomputed for only those students admitted to graduate school, the value of the correlation will most likely
 
  a. increase. c. stay the same.
  b. decrease.


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tmlewis4706

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

A

Answer to Question 2

B


imanialler

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Excellent

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