Lesson 8 - Correlations

Question 1

advantages of correlation

Answer 1

+ easy to identify strengths
+ allows researchers to investigate things that could not be manipulated experimentally for ethical reasons
+ predictions can be made about the variables

Question 2

disadvantage of correlation

Answer 2

_ can’t demonstrate cause and effect
_ confounding variable may affect the correlation
_doesnt detect curvilinear rs where its positive rs until a certain point but after that its neg or vice versa