If researcher notes thatthe correlation in a group of respondents to a survey is so large that if there were no correlation among people in general, there is less than a 5% chance of obtaininga correlation this large, the correlation is
A) statistically significant.
B) statistically insignificant.
C) nonlinear.
D) curvilinear.
Answer: A
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