You are in a brainstorming session at WidgeCorp, where no idea is too outrageous. You are discussing penetration in the school lunch market. Ideas around school lunch subsidies, Internet subsidies, and Internet target marketing are being discussed. As the end of the meeting, the group asks you to prove or disprove some assumptions by looking at correlations.
First, acquaint yourself with the Internet subsidy issue by reading the article Closing the Digital Divide: Internet Subsidies in Public Schools by Austan D. Goolsbee and Jonathan Guryan.
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Variable A
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Variable B
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Correlation:
positive, negative,
minimal?
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Number of school lunch eligible students in the school
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Amount of funding
received by the school for federal and state education-related
programs
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Impact of subsidy received
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Age of students at school
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Number of classrooms connected to the Internet
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Student performance, as measured by standardized test scores
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Teachers' comfort level with the Internet
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Ability of teachers to use Internet effectively with their students
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