Question

You found out that a friend in your class collected the same kinds of data age and weight of a backpack) from a similar sample. Your friend found a 0.63 correlation between the two variables. You found a 0.17 correlation between the two variables. Suggest reasons why the results could be so different, using the specific features of your research study.

Answer 1

The difference between the correlations suggests that there is no relation between the analyzed variables. If there was a strong relationship between the variables, two different samples would give similar correlations, which is not the case.