Optional Activity 3

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Questions 1 & 2
-0.904 indicates that there is a strong negative correlation between social anxiety and study hours. This means that as social anxiety increases, the number of study hours decreases and vice versa. This correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.

Questions 3 & 4
Yes, the attendance rate affects the results whether you pass or fail.

[Rinnelle]

Question 1 – A Pearson’s correlation coefficient, r, of -0.904 indicates a strong negative correlation between social anxiety and study hours. It suggests that higher social anxiety is associated with fewer study hours and vice versa.

Question 2 – This association is statistically significant at the 0.01 level.

Question 3 – The chi-square value (3.651) is less than the critical value (4.579), which suggests that we’d have to fail to reject the null hypothesis. This means that attendance level is associated with whether a student passed. However, the data used produced cross tab outputs showing frequencies less than 5 in each cell and so the result may not be credible.

Question 4 – Since there is a strong negative correlation between social anxiety and study hours, I would likely prioritize this result in designing an academic intervention, although encouraging course attention is also important.

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