Assume that instead of conducting experiments, Latané and Darley had used a correlational method to study the relation between t
he number of bystanders who witness an emergency and how quickly a victim receives help. Assume that the correlational data were compatible with results from experiments: the more bystanders, the longer it took bystanders to help. What type of correlation is this?A) a nonlinear correlationB) a zero correlationC) a positive correlationD) a spurious correlationE) a negative correlation
<em>More people ⇒ Longer time</em> is a positive correlation between those variables. However, <em>longer time</em> is not the desired outcome.
Rather, <em>shorter time</em> is the desired outcome. The correlation between <em>more people</em> and <em>shorter time</em> is negative. In order to compute that correlation numerically, one would have to define a function that would give a numerical value for "shorter time" that would model the goodness of outcome as time gets shorter.
