A philosopher wanted to see if curiosity about the meaning of life had any correlation, either positive or negative, with the age of college students and planned to use a Pearson r on her data. She obtained a random sample of 250 undergraduate students at the college where she taught and administered the Degree of Curiosity About the Meaning of Life Scale (an interval-level scale) to each one. Here is the scatterplot of her results.

(a) Check the assumptions and

(b) Decide if she can proceed with the planned Pearson r.

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Age Curiosity about meaning of life