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Alainaaa8

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When both sets of measures are in ordinal form, the appropriate
  correlational technique should be
 
  a. the Pearson r
  b. the t test
  c. the Spearman r
  d. the coefficient of determination

Question 2

When the underlying distribution of interval scores is violently skewed,
  the appropriate correlational technique should be
 
  a. the Pearson r
  b. the t test
  c. the Spearman r
  d. none of these, since correlations cannot be computed for skewed
   distributions



Koolkid240

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

c



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