Two professional football scouts are in the process of recruiting 7 new 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,which one of the following nonparametric tests would be chosen?
A)Wilcoxon signed rank test
B)Wilcoxon rank sum test
C)Sign test
D)Kruskall-Wallis test
E)Spearman's rank correlation test

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Spearman's rank correlation test is the correct choice because it is used to measure the degree of association between two variables. In this case, it would assess the correlation between the rankings given by the two scouts to the seven football players, thus determining if they have similar opinions on the players' prospects.

Two Professional Football Scouts Are in the Process of Recruiting