Given a dataset where r = -.9, adding a new case where the value of x is high and the value of y is low is most likely to…
a. increase the magnitude of the correlation
b. decrease the magnitude of the correlation
c. have no effect on the correlation
d. skew the correlation
a. increase the magnitude of the correlation
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