Choose all correct statements that are always true based on

Choose all correct statements that are always true based on the research described below.

Elmo wanted to find out whether drinking more milk would make one taller. So he randomly chose 100 people around the country and measured their height and the amount of milk they had every day. After running a correlation analysis, Elmo found a correlation coeficient of .78 with p-value of .0001 for the relationship between height and milk consumption.

Question 5 options:

The results show that there is a significant correlation between the two variables, given alpha=.05.

The results show that neither the milk variable nor the height variable is the cause of variation in the other variable.

The results show that if people drink milk, then they will get taller.

The results show that if you get taller, then you will start drinking more milk.

Solution

The results show that if people drink milk, then they will get taller.
The results show that there is a significant correlation between the two variables, given alpha=.05.

Reason: It given a correlation coeficient of .78, meaning that we have strong positive correlation between the variables.