Robert conducted a test on organizational friendships. He wants to find the relationship between organizational friendship (friendship prevalence and friendship opportunity) and organizational culture (task and relational). In essence, he has four interval scales he is examining: two for organizational friendship and two for organizational culture. Since he is attempting to examine four variables, which test would be the most parsimonious?
A)one canonical correlation
B)two multiple linear regressions
C)two canonical correlations
D)six bivariate correlations

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One canonical correlation is the most parsimonious choice because it allows for the examination of the relationships between two sets of variables (in this case, organizational friendship and organizational culture) using a single statistical test, rather than multiple tests.

Robert Conducted a Test on Organizational Friendships