I done some research and found that the correlation was 0.09
Does that means there was hardly any correlation? Or does that mean there's a high correlation?
Any help appreciated, thanks
2007-02-04 06:21:35 · 6 answers · asked by Miss Terious 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Presumably, the number is Pearson's r, which ranges from -1 to 1. Zero means no relationship, with values approaching -1 OR +1 meaning a stronger relationship. So .09 is actually pretty weak. It means that as one of your variables increases, there is a very slight tendency for the other one to increase. A guy named Cohen said that in psychology a correlation of .10 is weak, .30 is medium, and .50 is strong. Yours is in the weak area.
2007-02-04 15:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by Paul P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A correlation coefficient is a number between -1 and 1 which measures the degree to which two variables are linearly related. If there is perfect linear relationship with positive slope between the two variables, we have a correlation coefficient of 1; if there is positive correlation, whenever one variable has a high (low) value, so does the other.
A correlation coefficient of 0 means that there is no linear relationship between the variables.
2007-02-04 14:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by sara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A perfect correlation is 1.00. So the closer you are to 1.00 the stronger the correlation.
.09 is really far away from 1.00 SO it is a weak correlation.
2007-02-04 14:27:07 · answer #3 · answered by Lou 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is a strong positive correlation.
2007-02-04 20:16:35 · answer #4 · answered by Trojan8408 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your correlation is 0.01 then its very weak as 1.00 would be a perfect correlation. However, if 0.01 is your significance level then its very significant.....all very confusing,lol
2007-02-04 15:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by robb086 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to me, that would mean hardly any correlation,,,,,, 0.10 would be a ten percent, right?
2007-02-04 14:24:18 · answer #6 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋