Imagine that you collect data from a group of people on how much aerobic exercise they get per week and how many cars they have owned throughout their lives. You find a Pearson’s r of .11 (p = .810). How should your prediction analysis proceed?
a. You should predict how many cars people have owned from amount of aerobic exercise.
*b. It shouldn’t; your variables are not related.
c. You should predict amount of aerobic exercise from how many cars people have owned.
d. You should calculate Cohen’s f2 to learn the size of the effect.
Ans: B
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