Question

1. Given below is a correlation matrix from a study of drinking habits of college students.  The purpose of the study is to examine what affects the amount of alcohol consumed by students.

Consumption (C) has been measured as the amount of alcohol consumed per week.  Sports (S) refers to the amount of time spent by the student on sports and athletics activities per week. Consumption (H) at home refers to the amount of alcohol consumed by the student’s family at home per week.   Greek (G) refers to the number of years the student has lived in a fraternity or sorority house.  Religious (R) captures the extent to which the student is religious.  The variable Friends (F) refers to the number of friends the student has.

What do the findings of the study suggest?                                                                                     Points 4

                                                  C                  S                H                G               R              F

Consumption (C)                      1.00

Sports (S)                                -0.24 ^b           1.00

Consumption at home (H)        0.31 ^a           0.07            1.00

Greek (G)                                 0.35 ^a           -0.10           0.26 ^b           1.00

Religious (R)                          -0.21 ^b            0.14           -0.18 ^c          -0.04         1.00

Friends (F)                               0.16 ^c            0.24 ^b           0.02            0.34 ^a        0.01         1.00

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^{a: p < .01}

^{b: p < .05}

^{c: p < 0.1}

Answer 1