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Use the following scenario to answer the question: A health psychologist is interested in understanding whether there's a relationship between how much sleep people get and their level of anxiety. She recruits 30 adults, and she records their average hours of sleep per night over a week and completes the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) to measure their anxiety level. A Pearson correlation of r = - 0.80 is found. What kind of relationship can you infer?