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AP Psychology 1.3 Research Methods. What is this relationship called?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by honey and the age-old [People sitting in chairs with Winnie the Pooh]

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question when will Pooh finally admit he has a problem and here's the question

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Sally conducted an experiment to determine if eating peanut butter and

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honey ahead of a math exam led to better scores she found an honors algebra class

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and discovered that the algebra students who ate more peanut butter and honey

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received an average of 93 while the students who ate less peanut butter and

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honey scored 86, this relationship is called a what

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well let's start with A symmetric [Pooh writing on chalkboard]

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distribution describes a statistical situation in which the values of

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variables occur at regular frequencies like bell curves... If Sally had found that

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both too much and too little peanut butter and honey led to identical grades [Sally with a bell curve]

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and there was a perfect amount of peanut butter and honey that provided optimal

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grades then this would be our answer but unfortunately for us there's not really [Pooh with peanut butter and honey]

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such thing as the perfect amount of peanut butter and honey we always end up

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wanting more what about B? Well a variance is the difference between a

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projected value and the actual result a positive variance would be when the

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result exceeds the expectation for instance a positive budget variance

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would be when the expenses are less than predicted leading to a positive end [Girl with a dollar bill]

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amount like if you bought two bathtubs full of peanut butter and honey would

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cost a thousand bucks but it only ended up costing you 850 [Two bath tubs filled with peanut butter and honey]

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okay sure we might have a problem how about C? Standard deviation is a measure

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used to quantify the amount of variation within a set of values, well for

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standard deviation of the test grades was a high number it would mean that [Student holding up test grades]

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most student test scores vary greatly however if the number was close to zero

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it would mean most people have very similar test scores, well this could

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definitely apply to Sally's experiment it has nothing to do with the scores as

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they relate to peanut butter and honey consumption negative correlation is [Sally with peanut butter and honey in the kitchen]

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close but no cigar the word correlation does directly describe the relationship

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between two variables, however the word negative is where we

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part ways with E - In this context negative describes when two variables

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travel in opposite directions of one another [Variables moving in opposite directions]

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if grades went down as the peanut butter and honey consumption went up, then we'd

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have a negative correlation however we know that's not the case in fact

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it's the opposite as the consumption goes up so to goes grades - so we're

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looking for the opposite of negative you wonder what that could be..... [Teacher marking out answers on board]

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So it's D - positive correlation that's our answer

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a positive correlation is when both sets of values increase simultaneously making

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the relationship a positive one sounds pretty sweet to us...[Pooh with a jar of honey]

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