ABSTRACT
How satisfied are you with your body? Are you concerned that advertisers and the media bombard us all with images of idealized but unrealistic bodies? Are there bad consequences for some young people? Researchers investigating such questions often study the relations between variables, starting with the correlation between two variables. Correlation is our topic in this chapter, and Figure 11.1 is a scatterplot, a revealing picture of the correlation between Body Satisfaction (X) and Well-being (Y) for a group of 106 college students. Each point represents one student, and is positioned to reflect that person’s X and Y scores.
