Yes, we did check the scatterplot and it is a pretty good (heteroescadistic?) example of a negative correlation.
Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:40 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: Unexpected neg corr between Self-monitoring and Social Desirability Rick, This is so basic and so trivial, that I'm pretty sure you have already ruled this out. However, for sake of making a useless suggestion, has your student checked for unreasonable outliers or illegal values? (e.g., "99" for a missing value). Danny Quoting Maxwell Gwynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rick: > > You may want to suggest your student investigate the correlations > between social desirability and the individual subscales' of > self-monitoring (Other-Directedness, Extraversion, and Acting, > assuming he/she used Snyder's (1974) revised Self-Monitoring Scale). > Perhaps only one of these shows a negative correlation. > > -Max Gwynn > > > > Maxwell Gwynn, PhD > Undergraduate Advisor > Department of Psychology > Wilfrid Laurier University > 75 University Avenue West > Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada > > (519) 884-0710 ext 3854 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/30/2004 4:46:40 PM >>> > > A student of mine is doing a research project with a military sample > and she has found a pretty strong negative correlation (about a third > of the variance shared) between Snyder's Self-monitoring scale and the > Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scale. This correlation is not the > main point of her hypothesis (which is that the military sample will > have a higher rate of Social Desirability than the population) but it > is quite puzzling. It would seem that the two scales should be > positively correlated. Of course, the first check was to see if the > scales might somehow be reversed but that doesn't seem to be the case. > Any ideas? > > Rick > > Dr. Rick Froman > Professor of Psychology > John Brown University > 2000 W. University > Siloam Springs, AR 72761 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (479) 524-7295 > http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe > send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To > unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP Webmail of Haifa University http://webmail.haifa.ac.il --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
