The values in correlational analysis results are called ______.

• A. Coefficients
• B. Scores
• C. P-values
• D. Variances

Answer: (A)

Correlation analysis reports a statistic that quantifies how two variables relate to each other. The numbers you see are called correlation coefficients. They come in forms like Pearson’s r for linear relationships or Spearman’s rho for monotonic ones. The coefficient value ranges from -1 to 1: values near 1 mean a strong positive relationship, near -1 indicate a strong negative relationship, and around 0 suggest little or no linear relationship. These coefficients are the primary measures of association in the results. P-values, on the other hand, tell you whether that observed relationship is statistically significant; variances describe data dispersion; scores are the data values themselves. So the values you read in correlational results are correlation coefficients.