A Researcher Examines the Relationship Between Poverty and Crime Rates

A researcher examines the relationship between poverty and crime rates for 100 metropolitan areas and finds a zero-order correlation of 0.37.She controls for the percent of families that are headed by single parents and finds a first order partial correlation of 0.33.Which of the following correctly describes this outcome? This is a(n) ____ relationship

A) direct
B) statistically significant
C) spurious
D) interactive