A political scientist wished to examine the relationship between the voter image of a conservative political candidate and the distance (in miles) between the residences of the voter and the candidate. Each of 12 voters rated the candidate on a scale of 1-20.

a. Calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient rs.
b. Do these data provide sufficient evidence to indicate a negative correlation between rating and distance?

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