Let's Assume We Find in a Study That the Correlation

Multiple Choice

Let's assume we find in a study that the correlation coefficient between number of years of education and cigarette smoking is -0.89. This means that as education level increases:

A) smoking tends to increase.
B) smoking tends to decrease.
C) smoking changes 89 percent.
D) smoking is nonexistent.
E) only 89 out of every 100 people in the study would not smoke.