Correlations

Question 1

What’s a correlation?

Answer 1

A mathematical technique that’s used to investigate two variables

Only an association is found not a cause-and-effect

Question 2

+/- correlation

Answer 2

+can be used as starting points to asses patterns between co-variables
+quick and economical
+secondary data can be used which is less time consuming

-difficult to establish cause and effect
-confounding or extraneous variables
-tend to be misused or misinterpreted