\"a college newspaper interviews a psychologist about studentratings of the teac

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"a college newspaper interviews a psychologist about studentratings of the teaching of faculty members. the psychologist says,"the evidence indicates that the correlation between the researchproductivity and teaching rating of faculty members is close tozero." The paper reports this as "professor McDaniel said that goodresearchers tend to be poor teachers, and vice versa." Explain whythe paper's report is wrong. write a statement in plain language (don't use the word "correlation") to explain thepsychologist's meaning.

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Scatter Plots (also called scatter diagrams) are used toinvestigate the possible relationship between two variables thatboth relate to the same "event." A straight line of best fit (usingthe least squares method) is often included.

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