Suppose that Dr. Poonnamalee finds a correlation of +.68 between the amount of humor professors use and the grades that students earn in their classes. What can he appropriately conclude from this finding?
a. ?There is no meaningful relationship between these two variables.
b. ?Greater use of humor is associated with higher grades.
c. ?Greater use of humor is associated with lower grades.
d. ?Humor, or the lack of it, causes student grades to be higher or lower.
ANSWER:
b
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