A.An employment agency gathers the following data on its clients:
- Age
- Gender
- Educational level (no high school, high school, associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s)
- Years of past experience
- Whether or not they have been successfully placed in employment by the agency
B.Additionally, the following data is gathered for those who have been successfully placed:
- Starting salary
- Current salary
- Tenure in months
C.Based on the information above answer the following questions:
- Which type of correlation procedure would be most appropriate to gauge the relationship between each pair of variables?
- Do you expect each pair of variables to be significantly correlated or not? Why?
- For the variables you expect to be significantly correlated, what do you expect the direction of the relationship to be? Why?