Hello,
I recently ran a point biserial correlation to analyse the potential relationship between age and whether someone would say yes or no to a question. Basically would a person's age influence whether they said yes or no to the question.
I'm aware that technically this is breaking the assumption as age is a discrete variable not a continuous. However, I'm just wondering if my conclusions from the data are accurate to the outcomes?
So, for ages and yes/no, there was a positive (.150) Pearson's correlation which was significant (.031). I'm trying to understand whether this means that those who are older are significantly more likely to say yes to the question- which is my original conclusion and the one I'm unsure of.
Or if it means that the yes category simply has significantly higher values, meaning I have higher rates of people saying yes who are older.
I'm hoping the distinction is coming across well enough there. Essentially:
Conclusion 1- if you are older you are more likely to say yes
Conclusion 2- there are higher rates of people saying yes who are older
It could also be the secret third option which is neither. Unfortunately I think I've thought myself into a circle that I can't seem to figure my way out of so any insight would be greatly appreciated.