You calculate the correlation between amount of job experience and work productivity in a group of employees in an organization you are studying. You find that as experience increases productivity also increases. Your finding represents a ________ relationship between job experience and productivity.
A) positive
B) curvilinear
C) negative
D) polylinear

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A positive relationship indicates that as one variable (job experience) increases, the other variable (work productivity) also increases. This is consistent with the findings in the scenario. Curvilinear implies a U-shaped relationship, negative suggests that as one variable increases, the other decreases, and polylinear is not a recognized statistical term for describing a relationship between variables.

You Calculate the Correlation Between Amount of Job Experience and Work