Mistakes. Describe the mistake made in the following analyses:
a. Ten teachers compute their average test scores for all their students. Then the superintendent collects their data and finds the school average. He repeats this process for eight different schools and finds a positive correlation between the age of the school average age of the teachers at a school and their average score.
b. The mayor of a city is concerned that the population of the city is growing faster than revenue. He calculates that over the last 5 years, the year and the size of the city have a R-sq of 95.7%. With such a high value, the may or confidently predicts the population for the next three years of fiscal planning.

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The Answer of Mistakes. Describe the mistake made in the following analyses:
a. Ten teachers compute their average test scores for all their students. Then the superintendent collects their data and finds the school average. He repeats this process for eight different schools and finds a positive correlation between the age of the school average age of the teachers at a school and their average score.
b. The mayor of a city is concerned that the population of the city is growing faster than revenue. He calculates that over the last 5 years, the year and the size of the city have a R-sq of 95.7%. With such a high value, the may or confidently predicts the population for the next three years of fiscal planning.

Mistakes Describe the Mistake Made in the Following Analyses