A researcher notes that the correlation in the group she studies is so large that if there were not a correlation among people in general, there is less than a 5% chance of getting her correlation. Her correlation is thus:

A) statistically significant
B) statistically insignificant
C) nonlinear
D) curvilinear


A

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