Multiple Choice
A researcher examines the relationship between poverty and crime rates for 100 metropolitan areas and finds a zero-order correlation of 0.37.She controls for the percent of families that are headed by single parents and finds a first order partial correlation of 0.33.This is a ____ relationship.
A) direct
B) statistically significant
C) spurious
D) interactive
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