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Use the Punitiveness.xls data, correlate collective_efficacy (respondents’ perceived collective efficacy in their neighborhood) and punitiveness (respondents’ support for punitive criminal justice policies) in Excel. Copy and paste the Excel output here. Summarize your results and make sure that you briefly explain what this correlation means to you in terms of the impact of collective efficacy on respondents’ support for punitive criminal justice policies (direction of the correlation, correlation coefficient, and test of significance result).

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