Phil conducts a correlational study exploring the association between sexual satisfaction and marriage length. He measures how long a group of couples have been married and also how much sexual satisfaction they report. He discovers that couples who have been married longer report less sexual satisfaction than couples who have been married for shorter lengths of time. What type of correlation did Phil find in his study?

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12 September, 07:11

Phil conducts a correlational study exploring the association between sexual satisfaction and marriage length. He measures how long a group of couples have been married and also how much sexual satisfaction they report. He discovers that couples who have been married longer report less sexual satisfaction than couples who have been married for shorter lengths of time. What type of correlation did Phil find in his study?

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Devyn Steele · Answer 1

Answer:negative correlation

Explanation:

This is a correlation where there is an opposite relationship between two variables which means when one variable increases the other variable decreases.

He studied a relationship between sex satisfaction and the length of marriage and the result showed that people who have been married long were no longer sexually satisfied.

So as the years of marriage increased, sexual satisfaction decreased which shows opposite relation between these two variables.