You want to see if there is a positive relationship between social class and number of friends. Which type of analysis should you do?
A) create a frequency table for each variable
B) compute the mean for each variable
C) compute a measure of association
D) compute the variance for each variable
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A measure of association, such as Pearson's correlation coefficient, would directly assess the relationship between social class and the number of friends, indicating whether a positive relationship exists.

You Want to See If There Is a Positive Relationship