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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 3. What is the strong correlation between weight and a player's salary?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by the San Francisco Giants.
- 00:08
Beating them is a...tall order.
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What is the strong correlation between weight and a player's salary?
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And here are the potential answers...
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This problem is asking us to figure out if there's some kind of correlation...
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or relationship...between player weight and salary.
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If there is... we have our fingers crossed for Prince Fielder.
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Anyway, it's instantly clear that we can use graph 2 to get our answer.
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To figure out the relationship, we can look at the pattern the red dots make...
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...or the lack of pattern?
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They seem as all-over-the-place as Mr. Fielder's dietary habits.
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It looks kind of like a negative relationship at first...
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...increases...
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...but then again everything sort of hovers equally around the middle.
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Again... just like with Prince Fielder.
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So...this lack of correlation means there is no strong correlation between a player's
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weight and a player's salary.
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Answer D is our answer!
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Huge sigh of relief.
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Keep packing away those M&M's, Prince.
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