Which of the following statements correctly explains the newspaper interpretation of the professor's comment?

A college newspaper interviews a psychologist about the student ratings of the teaching of faculty members. The psychologist says, "The evidence indicates that the correlation between the research productivity and teaching rating of faculty members is close to zero." The paper reports this as "Professor McDaniel said that good researchers tend to be poor teachers, and vice versa." The newspaper's report is wrong.

Which of the following statements correctly explains the newspaper interpretation of the professor's comment?



A. The newspaper interpreted zero correlation as a non-linear relationship.
B. The newspaper interpreted zero calculation as no relationship.
C. The newspaper interpreted zero correlation as a negative relationship.


Answer: B. The newspaper interpreted zero calculation as no relationship.


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