Question

A researcher surveyed 12 men who lost their fathers earlier in their lives.  His survey included the age of the subjects when their fathers died and their confidence that they would someday be happily married themselves (100 point scale – higher score = more confidence).  The results are shown below.

Mx=15 My =60

SSx=348 SSy=5198

SPxy=933

Age	Confidence Rating
12	34
8	30
11	89
21	69
15	55
7	38
18	78
23	66
22	89
19	79
9	35
15	58

Using α = .05, write the r observed and indicate if the correlation coefficient is significant.

Answer 1