A polling organization is checking its database to see if the data sources it used sampled the same ZIP codes. The variable Datasource=1 if the data source isMetroMedia, 2 if the data source isDataQwest, and 3 ifit's RollingPoll. The organization finds that the correlation betweenfive-digit ZIP code and DATAsource is 0.0229. It concludes that the correlation is low enough to state that there is no dependency between ZIP code and Source of Data. Comment.

A.

A correlation of 0.0229 is very close tozero, which implies that there is a very strong relation between the variables.

B.

A correlation must be between 0 and1, so the correlation of 0.0229 must have been calculated incorrectly.

C.

The source of the data iscategorical, which will almost always result in very low correlation values. These types of correlations can only be interpreted in the rare instances when the correlation is close to 1 or 1.

D.

The source of the data is categorical. The correlation is meaningless.