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Reference Chapter 11 with the link above:

Exercise 11 (Chapter 11)

1. Why might researchers choose to include a scatterplot in the publication of their study?

2. Identify the x-variate and the y-variate presented in the Figure 2 of the Kriikku et al. (2014) study.

3. What type of relationship (positive or negative) does Figure 2 illustrate? Provide a rationale for your answer.