ABSTRACT
Every correlation has a p value associated with it. The p value indicates if the correlation is statistically significant or not. p values below.05 are typically considered statistically significant. If a study's results are very different from the null hypothesis, it is reasoned that the null hypothesis can be rejected. The p value is the way to tell how different a study's results are from the null hypothesis. This chapter presents a study where all variables were measured on a scale ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 representing the lowest level and 10 representing the highest level. The data on Latino youth in southwestern Minnesota were gathered through self-administered surveys. It can be seen that in the correlations there is an inverse relationship between how attached a rural Latino youth in the region feels to his or her school and several of the at-risk behaviors found in existing research.
