St Edward's Academic Review 2025

ACADEMIC REVIEW 2025

Table 3 Depicts the data from the March erg test used to insert into Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient

n

Indep. Variable

Dep. Variable

Rank of Indep. Var.

Rank of Dep. Var.

Difference between the ranks (D)

Difference Squared (D 2 )

1

180

07:49

2

10

-8

64

2

174

07.46

5

8.5

-3.5

12.25

3

170

07:41

8

7

1

1

4

163

07:46

10

8.5

1.5

2.25

5

171

07.31

7

5

2

4

6

188

07:27

1

4

-3

9

7

167

07:37

9

6

3

9

8

177

07.16

3

2

1

1

9

172

07:26

6

3

3

9

10

175

07.13

4

1

3

9

D2 =

120.5

n=

10

6ΣD^2 =

723

R^2=

0.270

n3-n =

990

Table 4 Depicts the data from the July erg test used to insert into Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.

N (participants)

Indep. Variable

Dep. Var iable

Rank of Indep. Var.

Rank of Dep. Var.

Difference between the ranks (D)

Difference Squared (D2)

1

180

07:48

2

10

-8

64

2

174

07.37

5

7.5

-2.5

6.25

3

170

07:35

8.5

6

2.5

6.25

4

163

07:44

11

9

2

4

5

171

07.37

7

7.5

-0.5

0.25

6

188

07:21

1

3

-2

4

7

167

07:27

10

4

6

36

8

170

07:52

8.5

11

-2.5

6.25

9

177

07.11

3

1

2

4

10

172

07:28

6

5

1

1

11

175

07.12

4

2

2

4

D2 =

136

n=

11

6ΣD^2 =

816

R^2=

0.382

n3-n =

1320

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