Lesson: 10-5 Correlation Coefficient

My Response:

1. Because the points are random I would give it a 0

2. I would say .85 for this one because some of the points are staked
on top of one another.
3. I would say a .80 for this one, because I feel that it is similar to the
one above, but not AS positive as that one. There are more
close/stacked points than in the one previously assessed.
4. While I put neither for the correlation, I can still see that it is more
on the negative side towards the right of the graph, so I would give
this a -.25.
5. This is obviously a negative correlation, I would give this a -.95
because some points do share a line with another point.

As for the website, I didn’t really understand the concept at first, but
after a while it made more sense.

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Guesses

Right
answers

Response to Classmates

1. 0, It doesn't look to me like there is really any correlation at all..the

points are very random.
2. .90, The correlation is a pretty strong positive one in this graph. It
is close to a straight line, with just some scattered points to the
side.
3. .85, The correlation here is also a pretty strong positive one, but
not as strong as the last graph, because it is a little more scattered
rather than perfectly straight up.
4. -.30, It is really pretty scattered everywhere, but it is still obvious to
me that there is somewhat of a negative correlation.
5. -.95, This correlation is very strong negative. I don't want to say
that it is 100% negative, so I just made it close.
I did well on the Guess the Correlation site. I finished with around 35
out of 40. I thought it was easier to choose a correlation coefficient,
rather than come up with it on my own, but I would say that I did well!

We had similar answers, but I think you may have been a little bit more
generous :P I can’t believe how well you did on that site! Lol, most of
the time I did well, but I would be off by .1! it was tricky!!!:)

1) 0.2 because there really is no relationship at all within the points

and they follow no real direction.

2) 0.9 because these points were a positive correlation and they are all
in the same direction. There is a close relatinship between the points.

3) 0.8 also because the points were a very positive correlation and
there was a close relationship between the points.

4) -0.3 because like the first scatter plot, there really is no direction or
relationship between the points, however this is more a negative
correlation and it has more of a relationship than the other scatter plot.

5) -1 because it is definitley a negative correlation and has a definite

relationship and direction.

On the website I didn't do very well at first, I only got 1 correct. But as I
started to understand correlation more and how the points relate to
eachother I did much better.

I think we had similar answers, but for the last one I don’t agree that it
was -1 because I saw some points share a same line so I gave it a -.95.
But other than that we pretty much had the same idea.