Multiple Choice
A correlation coefficient of a given magnitude is more likely to be statistically significant when
A) the sample size is small rather than large.
B) the error variance is large rather than small.
C) the coefficient of determination is near zero.
D) it is based on a large rather than a small number of scores.
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