Section 2: Pearson Correlation (Ch. 14 1 st half) Your job in this section will be to find the variables that are strongly correlated with College GPA. Some of these instructions are long, but its important that you read them all. The data I am giving you come from an imaginary survey of n = 25 students at this college. The survey contained 11 questions. Each question will become a variable in our data. These 11 variables will be represented as 11 columns, in both Excel and SPSS. Here are the imaginary survey questionsfamiliarize yourself with these survey questions (and the accompanying variable names) before moving on:

SURVEY QUESTION (EXACT WORDING) VARIABLE NAME

1. What is your name? Name

2. What is your gender? Gender

3. What is your major or intended major in college? Major

4. What is your current college GPA? CollegeGPA

5. What was your high school GPA? HighSchoolGPA

6. How many hours per week do you study for classes? Hours_study

7. How many hours per week do you work at a job or jobs? Hours_work

8. How many hours per week do you party? Hours_party

9. How many hours per week do you do family responsibilities (childcare, etc.)? Hours_family

10. How many hours per week do you spend consuming media (games, TV, etc.)? Hours_media

11. On a 1 to 10 scale, how motivated are you to get good grades in college? Motivation

*QUESTION 8. Which three variables in our dataset are discrete, and therefore not appropriate for correlations? Hint: all three discrete variables are also Nominal.