| Article ID: | iaor2016233 |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 25 |
| End Page Number: | 28 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Trafimow David |
| Keywords: | statistics: inference |
Much of the science reported in the media depends on correlation coefficients. But the size of correlation coefficients depends, in part, on the reliability with which the correlated variables are measured. Understanding this is a statistical literacy issue.