Question

• Identify a research question from your professional life or career specialization (adolescent development) that can be addressed by a correlation.
• Indicate why a correlation would be the appropriate analysis for this research question.
• Describe the variables and their scale of measurement.
• Discuss the expected outcome—positive, negative, no relationship.

Answer 1

As we are considering adolescent development here, the variable to correlate it with will be : Sudden Change in body features, increase in decision making aptitude, and intellectual development.

General mean of the stage before adolescent can be taken for the variables considered, and for the stage after adolescent development. If our sample shows the average difference as calculated by the general mean then those variables will be 1, otherwise zero for binary. Otherwise we can spread them across a range.

Expected outcome is to be positive for all the variables, as the development of these variables considered are positively related with adolescent development, though the absolute values will vary for all the variables.

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