1 - For the relationship between social class and movie attendance, a researcher

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Question

1 - For the relationship between social class and movie attendance, a researcher found a gamma of -0.45. This indicates that

A - as social class increases, so does movie attendance.

B - rich people watch more movies than poor people.

C - there is no relationship between these variables.

D - people from higher social classes are less likely to attend movies.

2 - A researcher has computed a gamma of -0.45 between marital happiness and number of children. What can she conclude?

A - Families with more children are happier. This is a moderate relationship

B - Children have a strong, positive influence on levels of marital happiness

C - There is a moderate, negative relationship between number of children and marital happiness.

D - There is a weak, negative relationship between the variables.

ANSWERS:

1) (D)

Here gamma=-0.45 means that there was an inverse relationship between social class and movie attendance

2) (C)

Here gamma =-0.45 means that there is a moderate negative relationship between number of children and martial happiness

Gamma coefficient indicates the relationship between ordinal variables

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