Introduction to Psychology Exam 1, Height, & Weight Correlation Data
Dr. Anthony A. Walsh, Spring, 2002
As might be expected, you can not predict a person's performanceon an examination by knowing either their height or their weight.
Curiously, there was a minor trend, although not statistically significant(r=-.18),
for Exam 1 grades to be negatively correlated with weight.
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These data analysis images were produced by VassarStats.
The more typical circular scatter plot of near zero correlation is more evident in the first two here.
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