When a Small Letter a (E

Multiple Choice

When a small letter a (e.g., ^a) is beside a Pearson r statistic, what does it usually indicate?

A) The Pearson r value is statistically significant at a specified level.
B) The Pearson r value may not be reliable.
C) The Pearson r value is too low to be statistically significant.
D) The Pearson r value is the correlation of that variable to itself.