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Think Before You Square Correlations--or Do Anything with Them.
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Wood, Robert – British Educational Research Journal, 1986
Maintains that simple squaring of the correlation coefficient between two variables to obtain "the degree to which the variance of one is explained by the other" is often misleading, represents "vulgarized knowledge," and obscures more meaningful relationships between variables. Illustrates this point with scatter-plot diagrams…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Research, Higher Education, Predictor Variables