Interpret the weak negative scatter pattern between distance from school and attendance. State the direction, strength, contextual tendency, and causation limitation.

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Distance from school and attendance have no association because a weak pattern is not an association.

Living farther from school causes lower attendance because the association is negative.

Students farther from school tend to have slightly higher attendance because the association is positive.

Students farther from school tend to have slightly lower attendance; this is a weak negative association but does not establish causation.

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Curriculum context

Course: Math I
Standard: S-ID.9
Category: Statistics and Probability
Domain: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Objective: Distinguish correlation from causation.
Problem type: Interpret a scatter plot association without overclaiming causation