As a project for a psychology course, a student correlated weight and intelligence scores for 250 students. The computed correlation coefficient was .00. What did the scatterplot look like?
A. a random distribution of points
B. a line with a positive slope
C. a straight line from the lower left to the upper right-hand corner
D. a straight line from the upper left to the lower right-hand corner
Answer: A
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