Correlations

Sex Age in Year Extroversion Minutes per

Score week

Pearson Correlation 1 .053 -.403** -.661**

Sex Sig. (2-tailed) .744 .010 .000

N 40 40 40 40
Pearson Correlation .053 1 .397* .234
Age in Year Sig. (2-tailed) .744 .011 .147
N 40 40 40 40
Pearson Correlation -.403** .397* 1 .670**
Extroversion Score Sig. (2-tailed) .010 .011 .000
N 40 40 40 40
Pearson Correlation -.661** .234 .670** 1

Minutes per week Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .147 .000

N 40 40 40 40
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

Since all the variables are correlated to some extent, it is difficult to

Give a clear answer to whether, for example, extroversion is really related
To car cleaning time, or whether the observed correlation between the
Two variables arises from the relationship of extroversion to both age and
Sex, combined with the relationships of each of the latter two variables
to car cleaning time. (A technical term for such an effect would be
Confounding.) Similarly the observed relationship between car cleaning
time and gender could be partly attributable to extroversion