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Identify What Is Wrong with Each of the Following Statements 800 m800 \mathrm {~m}

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Identify what is wrong with each of the following statements:
a. The correlation between Olympic gold medal times for the 800 m800 \mathrm {~m} hurdles and year is 0.66- 0.66 seconds per year.
b. The correlation between Olympic gold medal times for the 100 m100 \mathrm {~m} dash and year is 1.37- 1.37 . c. Since the correlation between Olympic gold medal times for the 800 m800 \mathrm {~m} hurdles and 100 m100 \mathrm {~m} dash is 0.41- 0.41 , the correlation between times for the 100 m100 \mathrm {~m} dash and the 800 m800 \mathrm {~m} hurdles is +0.41+ 0.41 .
d. If we were to measure Olympic gold medal times for the 800 m800 \mathrm {~m} hurdles in minutes instead of seconds, the correlation would be 0.66/60=0.011- 0.66 / 60 = - 0.011 .

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a. Correlation has no units.
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