Professor Falls wants to determine if there is a relationship between frequent hearing of a startle stimulus and hearing loss. He ran a regression and obtained an r value of .60. Which of the following best summarizes what this result means?
a. 60% of hearing loss is accounted for by frequency of hearing startle stimuli.
b. 36% of the variability in hearing loss can be accounted for by variability in the hearing of startle stimuli.
c. 36% of startle stimuli cause hearing loss.
d. 60% of hearing loss is caused by startle stimuli.
B
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