Do Creative People Make Better Teachers? Ten Teachers at a Large

Multiple Choice

Do creative people make better teachers? Ten teachers at a large university were given a creativity test (scores range from 0 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater creativity) and were evaluated regarding teaching performance by students and peers (a score of 100 indicates an average performance, and larger scores indicate better performance) . The creativity scores and teaching performance scores are given below.
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$$\begin{array} { | l | l | } \hline \text { Creativity score } & \text { Performance score } \\\hline 9 & 93 \\\hline 7 & 89 \\\hline 8 & 95 \\\hline 13 & 101 \\\hline 10 & 102 \\\hline 10 & 96 \\\hline 9 & 95 \\\hline 18 & 111 \\\hline 10 & 103 \\\hline 14 & 107 \\\hline\end{array}$$ Use technology to obtain the correlation between creativity scores and teaching performance scores. Rounded to 3 decimal places, what is the correlation coefficient?

A) 0.898
B) 0.795
C) 0.945
D) 0.698