Professor Miller has found that the correlation between a person's "need for affiliation" (found by taking a test to determine the need to be with others)and the number of hours spent watching television is -0.69.He should conclude that
A)as we observe people with higher and higher need for affiliation,we see a tendency for those people to spend less and less time watching television.
B)there is not much of a relationship between the two variables because the r is negative.
C)as we observe people with higher and higher need for affiliation,we see a tendency for those people to spend more and more time watching television.
D)the people who watch more television tend to have more need to be around others.

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The correlation coefficient is negative, which means that as one variable increases, the other decreases. Therefore, as the need for affiliation increases, the number of hours spent watching television decreases.

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