Side by Side College freshmen involved in a dating relationship agreed to participate in a nine month long study Every two weeks

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Side by Side College freshmen involved in a dating relationship agreed to participate in a nine month long study Every two weeks participants answered a detailed questionnaire about their relationship and their emotional well being Over the course of the study 26 of the participants experienced a breakup The average distress of these 26 participants at the time of breakup 0 weeks and over the following 10 weeks was assessed from their questionnaire answers The table shows the findings in a scientific publication Time since brea kup wee ks Aver age distr ess unit less score 0 2 6 10 3 3 3 1 2 9 2 6 CSV Excel JMP Mac TXT Minitab14 18 Minitab18 PC TXT R SPSS TI CrunchIt P Eastwick et al Mispredicting distress following romantic breakup Revealing the time course of the affective forecasting error Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44 2008 pp 800 807 doi 10 1016 j jesp 2007 07 001 Macmillan Learning How strong is the correlation between average distress and time since breakup Explain how the value for r matches your description from the scatterplot The correlation is close to 1 so it is very weak and does not represent the same direction as the scatterplot The correlation is close to 1 so it is very strong and represents the same direction as the scatterplot The correlation is close to 0 so it is very weak and represents the same direction as the scatterplot The correlation is close to 1 so it is very strong and does not represent the same direction as the scatterplot If we had measured time since breakup in days rather than weeks how would that difference affect r The correlation would changed from weeks to days if the units

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