Although you might suspect that dissatisfied people would be the most likely individuals to participate in political activities in an attempt to change things, research tends to show just the opposite. Flavin and Kean (2011) found a positive relationship between life satisfaction and political participation, which included activities such as attending rallies, contributing to candidates, and displaying a yard sign. Life Satisfaction Political Participation 5 4 8 7 3 2 6 9 3 5 1 3 4 6 2 4
a. Sketch a scatterplot showing the eight data points. You can do it by hand or use Excel.
b. Compute the Pearson correlation.
c. Conduct a two-tailed hypothesis test of the correlation with a=.05.
d. Compute the regression equation for predicting Y (life satisfaction) from X (political participation).