Question

Which of the following is a description of the data with a correlation coefficient of -0.2?

low positive correlation
low negative correlation
no correlation
high negative correlation

Answer 1

low negative correlation

Answer 2

Answer: Low negative correlation

Explanation:

High correlation: The value of correlation coefficient lies between -1 to -0.5 or 0.5 to 1.

Medium correlation : The value of correlation coefficient lies between -0.5 to -0.3 or 0.3 to 0.5.

Low correlation : The value of correlation coefficient lies between -0.3 to -0.1 or 0.1 to 3.

The given correlation coefficient :
`r =-0.2`

Clearly it is negative having minus sign.

Also it lies between -0.3 to -0.1

Hence, the data with a correlation coefficient of -0.2 has a low negative correlation.