Assignment 3: Correlation

Instructions:
Answer all questions, clearly show results and explanations under each question, and upload
to D2L
Total points: 20

3. Read this article: http://time.com/4487297/high-paying-jobs-personality/. Based on what you

have read here, can you confidently say there is a relationship between job fitness and salary? If
yes, what type of relationship and what makes you say that? If no, explain why not.

4. The table below contains scores from six people on two different scales that measure attitudes
towards Beauty Pageant shows.
Attitudes towards Watching Beauty The General Beauty Pageant Scale
Pageant Scale
3 2
7 5
4 3
1 1
8 7
6 7
Using the scores above, the two scales are likely to _________________________________

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The remaining questions are from smart Alex’s tasks on page 274 (chapter 8).

5. Complete Smart Alex's task 2 (p. 274). Make sure you present your results and interpret your
findings in a way that a non-statistics student/person would understand.

6. Complete Smart Alex's task 3. Our version of SPSS does not allow us to get bootstrapped
confidence intervals (as described on p. 260). Clearly explain to me what you learn from these
bootstrapped confidence intervals if you were to include them (p. 261 and the D2L videos on
bootstrapping will probably help you here).

7. Complete Smart Alex's task 6 (present results and interpret findings using the APA style in my
D2L lecture note for chapter 8).

8. Complete Smart Alex's task 8 (present results and interpret findings using the APA style in my
D2L lecture note for chapter 8).

9. Complete Smart Alex's task 11 (present results and interpret findings using the APA style in
my D2L lecture note for chapter 8).

10. The table below includes a small group of students for whom GPA and scores on a
motivation scale have been recorded. GPAs can range from 0 to 4 and motivation scores in
this example range from 0 to 100. Individuals in this table were ordered based on their GPA.

Student Student GPA Motivation

Joe 2.0 50
Lisa 2.0 48
Mary 2.0 100
Sam 2.0 12
Deana 2.3 34
Sarah 2.6 30
Jennifer 2.6 78
Gregory 3.0 87
Thomas 3.1 84
Cindy 3.2 75
Martha 3.6 83
Steve 3.8 90
Jamell 3.8 90

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 Tammie 4.0 98

Research Question: What is the relationship between students’ achievement motivation and GPA
at Garfield school?

a. Based on the research question provided, state the appropriate null and research hypotheses
separately.
b. Based on the data presented above, find out if there is a significant relationship between
students’ achievement motivation and their GPA (I don’t need to see your SPSS table
chart).
c. Present your results and interpret your findings per APA.