A researcher investigating the association between two variables collected some data and was surprised when he calculated the correlation. She had expected to find a fairly strong association, yet the correlation was near zero. Discouraged, she did not bother making a scatterplot. Explain to her how the scatterplot could still reveal the strong association she anticipated.

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A researcher investigating the association between two variables collected some data and was surprised when he calculated the correlation. She had expected to find a fairly strong association, yet the correlation was near zero. Discouraged, she did not bother making a scatterplot. Explain to her how the scatterplot could still reveal the strong association she anticipated.

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