Bongiwe has conducted correlational research on depression and caffeine intake and found that there is a negative correlation between the two variables. This means that as caffeine intake increases, depression decreases. The correlation coefficient (r) for her study is −.53. Keeping in mind that −1.00 would be a perfect negative correlation, what is the approximate strength of r for this study?

Erika is a human resource manager at bluetel inc., a software company. she receives a call from an hr manager at another software company asking about marshall, a software engineer who used to work at bluetel and has applied for a job at the caller's company. erika checks the company's records and sees that a coworker had accused marshall of racial discrimination, but an investigation did not turn up any evidence to support the charge. marshall left the company two months later, saying he was no longer comfortable there. erika is concerned about sharing the details of this situation with the caller. if telling the information to the caller leads to the other company not hiring marshall, what potentially unlawful behavior could marshall accuse bluetel of engaging in?

Which party do you think would best fit your personal ideology and views? pick one of the two parties and explain three issues from that party's platform that you agree with.

Say a certain manufacturing industry has 63.1 thousand jobs in 2008, but is expected to decline at an average annual rate of 1.7 thousand jobs per year from 2008 to 2018. assuming this holds true, what will be this industry’s percent change from 2008 to 2018? a. 70% b. -27% c. -17% d. -75%