As part of her graduate dissertation,Nadine gives a group of personality tests to fourth-graders.Included among these tests is a measure of popularity that she herself authored.Factor analysis of her data yields two factors: extraversion and creativity.Nadine then finds that her popularity measure had a high positive correlation with the extraversion factor and a high negative correlation with the creativity factor.What do the results mean?

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The results indicate that the popularity measure Nadine authored is strongly related to both extraversion and creativity, as evidenced by a high positive correlation with extraversion and a high negative correlation with creativity. This means that higher scores on extraversion are associated with higher popularity, while higher scores on creativity are associated with lower popularity.

As Part of Her Graduate Dissertation,Nadine Gives a Group of Personality