Imagine you conduct a study and find that there is a signifi…
Imagine you conduct a study and find that there is a significant positive relationship between employee motivation and job performance. You share the news with your colleague who responds: “I bet that the relationship between employee motivation and job performance is due to intelligence. In other words, the relationship between employee motivation and job performance will no longer be statistically significant after you control for intelligence.” In order to determine if your colleague is accurate, you collect data on these three variables (motivation, performance, and intelligence) in a new sample of participants. The results of the appropriate statistical analysis can be found below. The three variables involved in this study are listed below. Next to each variable, indicate whether each variable is a predictor or criterion variable. Employee Motivation [color1] Job Performance [color2] Intelligence [color3] What statistical analysis was conducted to answer the question: “Does the relationship between employee motivation and job performance hold after controlling for intelligence”? [color4] Based on the results provided, was your colleague accurate? (Yes or No) [color5]
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