Now that your data are entered and
saved, it is time to analyze. Click “Analyze,” then “Correlate” and then “Bivariate.”

This box will appear. You will see
your two variable names in a window on the left. You will also see an empty
window on the right. Your goal is to transfer each variable from the window
on the left to the window on the right. To do this, click on each variable
name to highlight it and click the arrow button in the center of the box.
Move your variables to the box on the right, one at a time, starting with
the first variable.

You will see that the first variable
has been moved to the Variables box on the right. Now it is time to move the
second variable. To do so, click on the second variable to highlight it and
click the arrow button again.

Both variables should appear in the
variables window on the right. Now its time to do one last thing. You want
to make sure that the Pearson box is checked. To check this box, simply
click it and a check will appear.

Click the OK button and your data
will be processed.

SPSS will print out your results.

To a meaningful place and with a
meaningful name. In this example, I decided to call this file “Correlation
between glasses of water and skin elasticity Output.spo.” This will help me
easily find this output file if I want to look at it in the future.

You still need to create a
scatterplot. To do this, go back to your data file. Do not close your output
file. Keeping it open now will help you in the future. You can return to
your data file by clicking in the task bar at the bottom of your computer
screen. From the data file, click “Graphs” and then “Scatter.”

This box will appear. Make sure that
the “Simple” selection is selected by clicking on it. When selected, the
“Simple” selection should have a dark boarder. When you are finished, click
the “Define” button

This box will appear. You will see
your two variable names in a window on the left. Your goal will be to move
these variables to the small windows on the right. You want to move your
first variable to the “Y axis” box. To do this, click on the variable name
to highlight it and move the variable by using the corresponding arrow
button. In this example, I will click on the name “water” because it is my
first variable. I will move it over with the arrow button that is second
from the top.
Your first variable name will appear
in the “X Axis” box. Now it’s time to move your second variable over to the
“Y Axis” box. To do this, click on the name of the second variable to
highlight it and move it over by using the corresponding arrow button. In
this example, I click on the name “skin,” my second variable, and I will
click on the top arrow button.

You will see this…
Both variable names will appear in
boxes on the right. Now click the OK button and wait a few seconds for
processing.

This time, your output file will
contain both the Pearson’s r values and the scatterplot. By keeping your
output file open while you generated the scatterplot, you have now added the
graph to your original output file.

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