A researcher wants to predict score on personal happiness (Y) from score on income (X1) and number of friends (X2). Which of the following would be the proper course of action?
a. Use the standardized partial slopes of X1 and X2 on Y.
b. Examine the unstandardized partial slopes of X1 and X2 on Y.
c. Compute the partial correlation coefficient for X1 and X2 controlling for Y.
d. Examine the partial slope of Y on each independent separately.
ANSWER: b
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