Solved – Negative correlation not significant ? How do i interpret it

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There is negative correlation between two variables that I am studying but spss does not show it as a significant correlation (p values are coming out to be greater than .2). So the question is

  • How do i interpret this insignificant correlations?

Best Answer

The fact that the correlation is negative means that higher values of one variable are associated with lower values of the other.

The fact that it is not significant means that, if, in the population from which this sample was randomly drawn, the correlation was 0.0, you would get correlations as far from 0 as the one you got p of the time and that p is higher than some arbitrary value chosen for being a benchmark for significance.

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