A study examines the relationship between hearing sensitivity (the lowest sound a person can hear) and speech recognition score in participants of two different age groups (20-30 and 50-60). Hearing sensitivity was assessed using pure tone thresholds. The speech recognition score was assessed with AzBio sentence perception. Pearson correlation results showed r = -0.59 (P 0.05) in 20-30 years group and r= -0.78 (p<0.05) in 50-60 years group. Assume both pure tone thresholds and AzBio perception score data are continuous and normally distributed. What is the appropriate statement based on the statistical results