A government researcher wants to conduct a study to determineif there is a corre

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A government researcher wants to conduct a study to determineif there is a correlation between social security numbers andincome. He collects that paired data from a random sample of100 people. Should the methods of this section be used withthe linear correlation coefficient? Why or Why not? A government researcher wants to conduct a study to determineif there is a correlation between social security numbers andincome. He collects that paired data from a random sample of100 people. Should the methods of this section be used withthe linear correlation coefficient? Why or Why not?

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The first requirement is that the (x,y) pairs be a random sampleof independent quantitative data. Since social securitynumbers are not quantitative data, it would NOT be appropriate touse methods of this section.

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