Most people are not good at estimating how many calories are in common food items.Recently,Tang and colleagues (2014)showed participants a variety of food items and asked them to estimate their caloric content.The correlation between these measures was found to be:
A)essentially zero.
B)weak and positive.
C)weak and negative.
D)strong and negative.

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The correlation between participants' estimates of caloric content and the actual caloric content of food items was found to be essentially zero, indicating that people are generally not accurate at estimating calories in food items.

Most People Are Not Good at Estimating How Many Calories