Burnout. The HR director of a company has noticed an increasing number of employees suffering from “burnout,”

in which physical and emotional fatigue hurt job performance.

The HR director has read that the more time a person spends socializing with co-workers, the higher the chance of burnout. He has circulated a questionnaire among employees from which a burnout index and a socialization index have been computed. The scatterplot shows the relationship between the socialization index and the burnout index for the company employees.

a) Do you think there is a clear pattern? Describe the trend.

b) Is the association strong?

c) Is a linear model appropriate for these data? Explain.

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Burnout Index 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 O 0 + 20 40 + + + 60 80 100 Socialization Index