A psychologist is interested in the relationship between job satisfaction and st

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A psychologist is interested in the relationship between job satisfaction and stress. Within a large corporation, the psychologist asked a random sample of workers 2 questions. The first question asked how satisfied workers were with their job and had them rate their satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 50. The second question asked how stressful they found their job in a given week. Again the workers rated their stress level on a scale from 1 to 50. What type of statistical test best assesses the relationship between job satisfaction and level of stress?

Correlation

I think the answer is correlation : am I correct?

Explanation / Answer

Correct! a correlation is a useful tool for describing the relationship between two paired variables, in this case job satisfaction and stress. Recall that stating that two variables are correlated does not allow for a researcher to make causal statements about the two variables or to test a specific relationship concerning the two variables. It merely measures the strength or the relationship between the two variables.

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