There are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark your answer as per the options given below.
Assertion: Spearman’s correlation coefficient is not affected by extreme values.
Reasoning: Spearman’s rank correlation was developed by the French psychologist C.E. Spearman.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option 3: Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R) is not correct.
Assertion: Spearman’s correlation coefficient is not affected by extreme values. This is correct. Thus if the data contains some extreme values, Spearman’s correlation coefficient can be very useful.
Reasoning: Spearman’s rank correlation was developed by the French psychologist C.E. Spearman. This is incorrect. C.E. Spearman was a British psychologist and not French.