RESEARCH STUDY 7.1 Dr. Oswald Conducts a Study Examining the Relationship Between the Relationship

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RESEARCH STUDY 7.1
Dr. Oswald conducts a study examining the relationship between the number of friends one has and the experience of daily stress and life satisfaction. She randomly samples 1,500 elderly men and women in the Memphis, Tennessee, area in the southern United States. Below are her findings.
 Life satisfaction and experience of daily stress: r = -.57 (p = .01)
 Number of friends one has and experience of daily stress: r = .09, not sig.
 Number of friends one has and life satisfaction: r = .36 (p = .04)
-Refer to Research Study 7.1 above to answer the following question. Which of the following conclusions can Dr.Oswald draw about the number of friends one has and life satisfaction,based on her statistical analyses?

A) The probability of her sample coming from a zero association population is about 4%.
B) The probability of her sample coming from a zero association population is about 96%.
C) The relationship is not statistically significant.
D) The strong correlation means that the number of friends one has causes increases in life satisfaction.
E) None of the above