Explain what variables are being analyzed and then explain why you think the researchers decided to use p instead of r. If they used both, then explain which one resulted in a more significant coefficient and why you think that happened.
Spearman’s Correlation Pearson’s correlation coefficient is, by far, the most commonly used metric for the degree of correlation between two variables. But r has its limitations, the main one being that it assumes that both variables should be normally distributed (which might sound restrictive, but really just means that they behave in a “typical. random … Read more