What is the proper way to report a single correlation within the text of a paper? Do you report degrees of freedom or N? There is little consistency in what I find searching on the internet for university APA help sites. I wasn't able to find the answer at APAStyle.org.
Particularly considering there is a new 6th edition, maybe those of you who have obtained it can comment if it has better information. I've looked through the 5th edition and come up empty. The example paper in the 5th edition that has a correlation for a study with a sample of 60 showed r(59) = .87, p < .01. Curious. Either there was a lost participant, not mentioned because of how they laid out the paper in the book, or they thought the degrees of freedom for a correlation was N-1, which is incorrect (it is N-2). Paul C. Bernhardt Department of Psychology Frostburg State University Frostburg, Maryland --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
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