Gender and Chocolate Preference The following table shows data on gender 1coded as 1 = female, 2 = male2 and preferred type of chocolate 1coded as 1 = white, 2 = milk, 3 = dark2 for a sample of 10 students.

The students’ teacher enters the data into software and reports a correlation of 0.640 between gender and type of preferred chocolate. He concludes that there is a moderately strong positive correlation between someone’s gender and chocolate preference. What’s wrong with this analysis?

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Preferred Chocolate Type Name Gender Type Name Gender Type Anna Franz Hans Lisl Michael 2 12212 23 2 Josef 2 3 Eva 1 2 Doris 1 332 1 Sophie 1 1 3 Kathi 1 1