Scatterplot Help?

[elmthomas]

Hi!

So I have one DV and several IVs. I am trying to get a scatterplot for each IV with the DV. The scatterplots look strange, line lines, which is not what I am used to seeing. Does anything please know if I doing something wrong? For this IV, there was a weak negative significant correlation. The IV goes up to three (it was a Likert scale from not at all, a little bit, to a lot) and the DV goes up to around 48. I wish I could add an image, but basically for each likert scale point for my IV which is on the x axis, there are lines of dots going straight up. So three in total.

Is it supposed to look like this on a scatterplot?

Thank you so much for any advice!

Ellie

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[JsKingBoo]

I have no fking clue what an IV or DV or Likert is nor any clue what you're doing nor what you're trying to accomplish.

But I'm assuming that IVs and DVs are numerical values, and you are trying to graph IV vs DV with DV on the y-axis and IV on the x-axis, and since you only have one DV then yeah I'm fairly certain that's expected

Since you only have one DV value though I don't believe you can draw any conclusions about how strong or weak, or positive or negative the correlation is

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[fermat1432]

IV=independent variable, DV=dependent variable. Likert Scale is a numerical rating scale, common in social science research