A social psychologist is interested in whether education level is related the number of desired children.She obtains an r value of -.24 with 62 subjects.What can we conclude from this study? Base your answer on whether the correlation is significant or not,using an alpha level of .05,nondirectional test.
A)A higher education level is significantly related to a larger number of desired children.
B)A higher education level is significantly related to a smaller number of desired children.
C)Education level is not significantly related to number of desired children.
D)Cannot be determined

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The negative r value (-.24) indicates that as education level increases, the number of desired children decreases. Since the alpha level is set to .05 for a non-directional test, we would reject the null hypothesis if the p-value is less than or equal to .05. However, without the actual p-value, we cannot determine if the correlation is statistically significant or not. Thus, we can only conclude that a higher education level is significantly related to a smaller number of desired children.

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