PSYC 4317

Final Paper

Fall 2019

Suppose a researcher RW decides to give his nine participants a series of 50 photographs.He asks the participants to rank order (from 1-50) how well-dressed the individuals in the photograph were and to rank order (from 1-50) how intelligent they thought the individuals in the photograph were.One of the photographs was of a well known actor.The well-dressed ordinal rankings and the intelligence ordinal rankings for this one photo are as follows.

WELL-DRESSEDINTELLIGENT

1412

3539

1617

4143

3940

2521

2627

119

2425

RW performs a simple linear regression (with WELL DRESSED as the Independent Variable and INTELLIGENT as the Dependent Variable) and obtains the following results.

Model Summary Adjusted R Std. Error of the Model R R Square Square Estimate 988= 975 972 2. 10093ANOVAa Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig Regression 1215.992 1215.992 275.492 000b Residual 30.897 7 4.414 Total 1246.889 8Coefficientsa Standardized Unstandardized Coefficients Coefficients Model B Std. Error Beta Sig. (Constant) -3.180 1.886 -1.686 136 welldressed 1.133 068 988 16.598 000