Researchers say that a correlation is significant if:
A) the dots appear to form a straight line on the scatter diagram
B) there is a small probability, such as 5% or 1%, that you could have obtained a correlation this big if in fact there had been no correlation in the population at large
C) the correlation is .05 or greater (or below ?.05 if negative)
D) there is a large probability (.50 or larger) that this correlation is greater than that computed in standard tables of what is called the chi-square distribution
B
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