A researcher found a significant correlation of .12 between gender (coded as 0 = ‘male’ and 1 = ‘female’) and number of friends at university. If the assigned values of gender were changed to 1 = ‘female’ and 2 = ‘male’, how would this affect the correlation? The strength of the relationship would become weaker The amount of variance explained by the relationship would increase It would become nonsignificant The sign would change to become negative

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A researcher found a significant correlation of .12 between gender (coded as 0 = ‘male’ and 1 = ‘female’) and number of friends at university. If the assigned values of gender were changed to 1 = ‘female’ and 2 = ‘male’, how would this affect the correlation?

The strength of the relationship would become weaker

The amount of variance explained by the relationship would increase

It would become nonsignificant
The sign would change to become negative

 

A researcher is trying to predict anxiety (measured on a 7-point scale) from exposure to stress (operationalised as the number of stressful life events participants can recall in the last week). She has found a correlation coefficient of r = .54 between anxiety and stress, with a standard deviation of 4.45 for anxiety and a variance of 17.21 for stress. What other information is needed to calculate b?

The sums of squares of stress
The sums of products of anxiety and stress The covariance of anxiety and stress
No other information is required

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