Why would a correlation of –.5 be just as useful as a correlation of .5?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: Because it is the size of the correlation and not the sign that indicates the magnitude of the relationship between the variables. Both –.5 and .5 indicate 25 percent shared variance between the variables.

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