Suppose you have a study hypothesis that suggests you will find a negative relationship between scores for social support and scores for stress. Your data have yielded a correlation coefficient of –.37 with a p value of .21. Explain why you would or would not draw the conclusion that you found a negative relationship between social support and stress.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: These data went in the expected direction because the negative sign in front of the correlation coefficient indicates a negative relationship. However, these data were not statistically significant, so you have found chance as your explanation which means that you should not conclude that you found a relationship between stress and social support.
Learning Objective: 7-15: Draw conclusions that are consistent with the data analyzed.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Phase 4: Drawing Conclusions in Explanatory Research
Difficulty Level: Hard
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