The newspaper Stupid Times published a study on the connection between the number of books people have
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The newspaper Stupid Times published a study on the connection between the number of books people have read (x) and the serious colds they have had. The study—which relied on a mere five observations—produced the following data:
The standard deviation of books read is 432.9; the standard deviation of serious colds is 7.5.
(a) Calculate Pearson’s correlation coefficient. What conclusion is Stupid Times likely to have drawn?
(b) Explain what a spurious correlation is theoretically.
(c) Based on your understanding of a spurious correlation, how do you interpret the result in (a)?
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a Using the table we can calculate the following Pearsons correlati...View the full answer
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