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They asked 80 college students to fill out a survey indicating their attitudes on a wide variety of topics. Sometime later they were shown the attitudes of a "stranger" responding to the same questions the participants had answered earlier. The strangers answers were actually made up by the researcher to vary with the attitudes of the participants. The participants were then asked how attracted they would be to the strangers, based on the answers to the survey questions. If opposites truly attract then the participants should be attracted to the strangers who shared the least about of similar attitudes with the participant. What is the SPSS test that you should use to conduct this analysis? (for example Anova, t-test)

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For this test, you have "number of similar attitudes" as the independent continuous variable and "degree of attraction" which I presume is a Likert-type scale and ...

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