Imagine that your instructor asks you to determine whether there is a relationship between musical ability and mathematical ability. The type of design best suited to this task would be a(n)

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A correlational study is best suited for determining whether there is a relationship between two variables, in this case, musical ability and mathematical ability, without attempting to manipulate the variables or establish a cause-and-effect relationship.  Psychologists use correlational methods to compute the correlation coefficient when they want to determine the degree to which two attributes such as this are related to one another.

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