Professor Doner asked you to interpret a Pearson product's moment correlation coefficient of .93. You say
A) it indicated an error in calculations. B) it indicated an exceedingly strong relationship.
C) it indicated a moderate relationship. D) it indicated a weak relationship.
The global War on Terror of the 2000s was caused by 19 hijackers who flew commandeered airplanes into
the World Trade Centers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.
Which logical error of causal explanation is presented in this explanation of the War on Terror?
A) tautology B) reductionism C) teleology D) ecological fallacy
Phyllis found a strong relationship between a student's level of academic achievement and whether that
student came from a single parent and two-parent home. She controlled for the student's race in a trivariate
table.
She then found that the relationship held only for Asian students. In the elaboration paradigm, this is an
example of
A) interpretation pattern. B) explanation pattern.
C) specification pattern. D) replication pattern.