Teaching and research a college newspaper interviews a


Question: Teaching and research. A college newspaper interviews a psychologist about student ratings of the teaching of faculty members. The psychologist says, "The evidence indicates that the correlation between the research productivity and teaching rating of faculty members is close to zero." The paper reports this as "Professor McDaniel said that good researchers tend to be poor teachers, and vice versa." Explain why the paper's report is wrong. Write a statement in plain language (don't use the word "correlation") to explain the psychologist's meaning.

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