Two NFL scouts are in the process of recruiting 7 college senior football players (receivers).After a careful review and evaluation,both scouts ranked the seven receivers in terms of their professional career prospects.If we want to determine whether the two scouts have similar opinions about the professional football career prospects of the seven players,state the null hypothesis. A)H₀: ρ_s ≠ 0 B)H₀: ρ_s ≥ 0 C)H₀: ρ_s ≤ 0 D)H₀: ρ_s = 0

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The null hypothesis should be that there is no significant difference between the opinions of the two scouts about the professional football career prospects of the seven players. Therefore, the choice D is the best option, which states that the correlation coefficient between the two sets of rankings is equal to zero.

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