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1. If playing video games and aggression are correlated, what are three possible directions of causality that might explain this correlation? Make sure your answer is explained in terms of the variables in this study. 

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2. A Canadian political scientist discovers that the number of members of their provincial parliament that a group of voters can name is as follows 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 , 35.  Upon examination of these scores, the researcher would probably decide to use which measure of central tendency, mean, median, or mode?  Explain your answer in one to two sentences. 

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3. students currently in a romantic relationship rated how important each of four different aspects of their relationship was to them. The article reporting the results included the following correlation matrix

Note. *p < .05; **p < .01

Based on this matrix please indicate the following (clearly label your response and answer all three questions):

a. The strongest correlation occurred between which two variables?

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b. The weakest correlation occurred between which two variables?

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c. Which associations between variables were statistically significant?

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