Before you can interpret the numerical value of r, you need to determine if it was appropriate to calculate r to begin with. The Pearson correlation coefficient, r, describes the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables. The first step in exploring a linear relationship is to generate the scatterplot, which you learned about in the previous section.
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