Correlation of Punitive Damages and Compensatory Damages

Results

In fact, the correlation coefficient for jury trials is .63 and the correlation coefficient for judge trials is .80.

As in the cases of 2 x 2 tables and comparison of means, one can ask whether the degree of correlation is likely to occur by chance. The probability of observing by chance correlations as strong as those in Figure 3 is less than .0001 for both jury and judge trials.