For women age 25 and over in the U.S. in 2005, therelationship between age and e

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For women age 25 and over in the U.S. in 2005, therelationship between age and educational level (years of schoolingcompleted) can be summarized as follows: average age ˜ 50years           SD ˜ 16 years average educational level ˜ 13.2years             SD ˜ 3.0 years, r ˜ -0.20 True or false, and explain: as you get older, you become lesseducated. If this statement is false, what accounts for thenegative correlation? For women age 25 and over in the U.S. in 2005, therelationship between age and educational level (years of schoolingcompleted) can be summarized as follows: average age ˜ 50years           SD ˜ 16 years average educational level ˜ 13.2years             SD ˜ 3.0 years, r ˜ -0.20 True or false, and explain: as you get older, you become lesseducated. If this statement is false, what accounts for thenegative correlation?

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The relationship between age and educational level (years ofschooling completed) of women are no way related. So the statement " as you get older, you become less educated" is false. The negative correlation observed here is only due to samplingfluctuations.

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