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Adjust the Slider to Understand Different Types of Correlation

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This week's A Level Psychology featured resource is a flash animation that illustrates correlation coefficients graphically. You adjust the slider to display a scattergram of sample data that has a correlation coefficient equal to the slider's value. This is an invaluable teaching resource to help students understand correlational relationships

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