1. Assume that a researcher identified that adopting meditation practices had an inverse relationship with levels of anxiety a person experiences. First, describe what that relationship means. Second, explain how the impact of this information might change for you if the r value was -.9 as compared to -.5.
We are given that adopting meditation practices had an inverse relationship with levels of anxiety a person experiences, this means there is a negative relationship exists between the given two variables meditation and level of anxiety. This means, if we increase the meditation practices, the level of anxiety decreases and vice-versa. If the value of the correlation coefficient is changed to -0.9 instead of -0.5, then we can say that the correlation is very stronger than before with r = -0.5. The correlation coefficient -0.9 indicates very strong negative linear relationship than that of -0.5.
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