Statistics for Behavioral Sciences - Correlation What does a negative sign tell you about the relationship between two variables, X and Y? Select all that apply 1) a negative correlation means X and Y change in the same direction 2) a negative correlation means as X increases, Y decreases 3) a negative correlation means X and Y change in opposite directions 4) a negative correlation means that X and Y are weakly related to each other

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2022-08-19

Statistics for Behavioral Sciences - Correlation
What does a negative sign tell you about the relationship between two variables, X and Y?
Select all that apply
1) a negative correlation means X and Y change in the same direction
2) a negative correlation means as X increases, Y decreases
3) a negative correlation means X and Y change in opposite directions
4) a negative correlation means that X and Y are weakly related to each other

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Beginner2022-08-20Added 8 answers

Both (2) and (3) are meant to apply.
However, the question is not a very good one, since clearly X and Y are meant to be random variates which have a negative correlation. It is easy to construct cases where X and Y have a negative correlation yet for some particular values X increases while Y also increases.
For example, let random variate X be distributed uniformly on (−10,10) and let Y be a deterministic function of X with Y = 9 X X 2 . Then the correlation coefficient of X and Y is 17 21 / 7669 .89. Yet if you change X from 0 to 1, Y changes from 0 to 8. Of course, through most of the domain, a positive change in X results in a negative change in Y, but that does not hold everywhere.

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