A silly psychology student gathers data on the shoe size of 30 of his classmates and their GPA's.
The correlation coefficient between these two variables is most likely to be
A) near 0
B) exactly +1.0
C) near -0.6
D) exactly -1.0
E) near +0.6

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Shoe size and GPA are unlikely to have any significant correlation, therefore the correlation coefficient is likely to be near 0.

A Silly Psychology Student Gathers Data on the Shoe Size