Question: #22 It appears there is a significant relationship btwn cognitive ability and social rank at least for birds. The follows represents measured social rank and individual learning for a group of starlings.

A) Because social rank is an ordinal variable the spearman correlation is appropriate for these data. The social rank categories and learning scores should both be converted to ranks before correlation is computed.

B) Based on the correlation from part A, is there a significant relationship btwn social rank and learning ability? Using two tailed test alpha at 0.05.